- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conceive Quotes
The edges of what we can imagine.
This set gathers thoughtful lines about the limits of imagination, including a philosophical claim that many people struggle to picture freedom without someone else paying a cost for it. Another reflects on the strange logic of negotiation itself. See Idea.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor.
- Motion
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The short film project I just finished for W Hotels and Intel, I didn't have my script finished until a few days before we began filming. We edited it very quickly and now it's up online. It was great to conceive an idea and have it premiere just a few weeks later, compared to a feature, which takes a year or more.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.
- Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not possible to conceive a democratic Guatemala, free and independent, without the indigenous identity shaping its character into all aspects of national existence.
- Belief
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- Nov 07, 2020