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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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The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow. ↗

— Robert Welch

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The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived. ↗

— William Hamilton

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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

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I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude. ↗

— Kate Bosworth

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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

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Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history. ↗

— Earl Browder

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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. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

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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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