#conception

I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute. ↗

— Zoe Lofgren

#conception #constitution #establish #federal #federal law

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions. ↗

— Vera Rubin

#best #force #observations #our #preconceptions

Remember preconceptions? Even though I'd landed hoping simply to somehow scrape the transatlantic fare home, I'd been an arrogant swine, imbued with that Old World toffee-nosed attitude: The United States of America's got no culture, not deep down. ↗

— Jonathan Gash

#lovejoy #preconceptions #attitude

In life or death situations, my father has only been there once for me. So I'd like to tell him thanks for not pulling out when I needed him the most: conception. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#death #family #father #life #death

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #concealment #empowerment #feminism #ignorance

It feels good to have something to bring to the table,” Ren said. “I will agree with that. But don't mistake having money or stuff as being the same as being worthy. ↗

— Cameron Dane

#worthiness #money

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#conception #concrete #responsibility #universal #vanishes

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#assume #children #come #conception #grinding

Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children. ↗

— John Doolittle

#certainly #children #conception #country #courts

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#conception #create #fact #future #just