#conceive

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic. ↗

— Clive Bell

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God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had. ↗

— Michael Connelly

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When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

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Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

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The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny. ↗

— Simone Weil

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The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

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