#conceive

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

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It wasn't that I was shy to go out with him, I just didn't want people with preconceived notions to assume anything about why we were together. I was pretty careful for a while. ↗

— Rose McGowan

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I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry. ↗

— Leon Theremin

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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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What the human mind can conceive and believe it can accomplish. ↗

— David Sarnoff

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He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own. ↗

— Richard Schickel

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Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

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Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. ↗

— Josiah Stamp

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