#conceive

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. ↗

— Merry Browne

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I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

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I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

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Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

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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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