#concept

Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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Life had stopped for her a long time ago. She was so out of touch with her feelings that she had no joy in her life and no concept of the fact that she could be wrong. She delivered her care of her insane patients in a killing manner, but she was convinced she was right. ↗

— Louise Fletcher

#care #concept #convinced #could #delivered

It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously. ↗

— Stephen King

#awesome #concept #consider #even #first

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#conception #dead #experience #experiences #gain

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. ↗

— Arthur Goldberg

#brooding #compelled #concept #constitution #devotion

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone. ↗

— Bernard Goldberg

#concept #evening #evening news #gone #news

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas. ↗

— Kim Gordon

#happened #i #ideas #just #music

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#fiction #folks #just #people #seem

It was Christopher's brilliant concept that he did not want this to become like every other sitcom where you do one take, and the audience gets bored with seeing it ten times, you know, over and over again. ↗

— Stacy Keach

#audience #become #bored #brilliant #christopher

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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