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Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons. ↗

— Helen Prejean

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To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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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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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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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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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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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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The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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