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conception
«Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.»
«And the conception of a God so constituted that we are, as individuals, of direct concern to Him appears both presumptuous - considering our individual insignificance in the scheme as a whole - and unnecessary for that feeling of helpless reverence i»
Author: Hans Zinsser
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as a whole, conception, Considering, constituted, helpless, insignificance, presumptuous, reverence, scheme, unnecessary
«Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.»
Author: Jay Leno
(Comedian, Host)
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bush, cell, conception, conservatives, execution, opposing, reiterate, reiterated, research, stem, stemmed
«Every writer ''creates'' his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.»
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
(Essayist, Poet)
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conception, modifies, modify, precursor, precursors
«Christian civilization is the greatest that the world has ever known because it rests on a conception of life that makes life one unending progress toward higher things, with no limit to advancement or development.»
Author: William Jennings Bryan
(Orator, Politician)
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advancement, conception, No limit, unending
«Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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academies, Academy A, at present, conception, discoveries, Europe, experiment, furnished, hence, instruments, rapid, rapids, sorry, The academy
«A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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articles, Articles of, conception, consumption, currency, exchangeable, fraud, reducible, small change
«As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
aspirations, conception, differentiate, differentiated, differentiates, distinguish, historical, imaginary, interests, in private, organism, Parties, party man, private interest, private life, Private Lives, struggles