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This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error. ↗

— Elmer Davis

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A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day. ↗

— Jim Bishop

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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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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. ↗

— William Godwin

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I used to think about how I was conceived quite a lot when I was about 10 or 11, but I don't think about it at all now that so many other babies have been born in the same way. ↗

— Louise Brown

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music. ↗

— Edgard Varese

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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

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The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment. ↗

— Daniel Bell

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