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Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy. Aristophanes
We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way. Stephen Jay Gould
Graham Greene quote: "You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness..."
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God. Graham Greene
At this Linda gave up. Children might or might not enjoy air-raids actually in progress, but a child who was not thrilled by the idea of them was incomprehensible to her, and she could not imagine having conceived such a being. Useless to waste any more time and breath on this unnatural little girl. Nancy Mitford
Fernando Pessoa quote: "Life is whatever we conceive it to be."
Life is whatever we conceive it to be. Fernando Pessoa
Terry Prachett quote: "I cannot conceive not writing."
I cannot conceive not writing. Terry Prachett
Napolean Hill quote: "Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Napolean Hill
Aesop quote: "It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to..."
It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it Aesop
Marriages performed within,' read the sign next to the coffeehouse door, underneath in small letters a verse that combined warning with a sales pitch: 'When lawless lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin. Toni Morrison
A paradox: the same century invented History and PHotography. But History is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic Time; and the Photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony; so that everything, today, prepares our race for this impotence: to be no longer able to conceive duration, affectively or symbolically: the age of the Photograph is also the age of revolutions, contestations, assassinations, explosions, in short, of... Roland Barthes
My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see. If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. Emily Dickinson
For those in whom a mere reaction has thus become an obsession, I do seriously recommend the imaginative effort of conceiving the Twelve Apostles as Chinamen. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Independence & self-reliance had no cultural purchase; indeed, they could scarcely be conceived, let alone prized...The best course was humbly to accept the identity to which destiny assigned you: the ploughman needed only to know how to plough, the weaver to weave, the monk to pray. Stephen Greenblatt
Isaac Asimov quote: "Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism..."
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. Isaac Asimov
Baclli swarm within my portals. Such as ne'r conceived by mortals, But, bred by scientists, Wise and hoary in some Olympian laboratory. Bacteria as large as mice. With feet of fire and heads of ice, Who never interrupt for slumber. Their stomping, elephantine rumba.( From the poem--- " The Common Cold " ) Ogden Nash

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