#conception

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception. ↗

— Novalis

#conception #deeply #ever #fate #feel

Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others. ↗

— Elihu Root

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A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#conception #go #i #man #office

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. ↗

— Socrates

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With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S. ↗

— James K. Polk

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The Republicans have long had a platform of being pro-life. And I'm someone that believes life begins at conception and should be protected. ↗

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#being #believes #conception #had #i

Mistakes and regret, desease and death...ain't recognized by mind that capable on changing them into otherwise. ↗

— Toba Beta

#desease #misconceptions #mistakes #regret #change

The banana flavour of his accidental conception, and the banana theme of his accidental death, now all seemed to conspire against him and rather suggest the universe, Mr Fate or whoever did have some sort of master plan after all. Despite all his earlier conjecturing, maybe the universe, Mr Fate or whoever was laughing its fat and meddling head at him. The outlandish evidence did seem to speak for itself, truly suggesting a mocking narrative devised by some mischievous author because quite simply a banana condom had brought Midnight into the world and a banana skin had seen him out. Putting those two seeming truths together, Midnight was once again forced to ask such confused and searching questions like: What is this place, where am I heading? And what’s the deal with all the ruddy bananas? ↗

— Tom Conrad

#chance #conception #fate #ghosts #midnight-merlot