#conceive

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#ago #brought #conceived #continent #created

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 came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

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I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

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I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#i #i think #make #most #notions

It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#business #comic #comic books #draw #embarrassing