#conception

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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Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended for it, and that much of this expenditure is an economic waste. ↗

— Daniel Starch

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I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic. ↗

— Laura Riding

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My reality is the misconceptions about me. ↗

— Tori Spelling

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. ↗

— Alan Patrick Herbert

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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

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Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning. ↗

— Jeane Dixon

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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. ↗

— H. G. Wells

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