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Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.
Bryant H. McGill
Accumulate
Conception
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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.
A.P. Herbert
Together
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The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.
Orhan Pamuk
Book
Conception
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Experience
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The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.
Max Weber
Appeared
Communist
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It's a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur's metric for success. It's not, and nor should it be.
Richard Branson
Common
Entrepreneur
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Thomas Hobbes
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Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
Thomas Hobbes
Arising
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
Tennessee Williams
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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
Based
Conception
Emotional
Illusion
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Edgar Allan Poe
Misconception
A
Stupidity
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
Malcolm X
The
America
Negro
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The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
Nikola Tesla
Perishable
Science
History
Revealed
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The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
Benito Mussolini
Absolute
Aims
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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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Conception
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People talk about the miracle of birth. No. There's the miracle of conception. I did IVF, but nothing happened. So I began to think of adoption, and then I got pregnant. It was definitely a miracle.
Iman
About
Adoption
Began
Birth
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Survival, it is called. Often it is accidental, sometimes it is engineered by creatures or forces that we have no conception of, always it is temporary.
Wallace Stegner
Survuval
Called
Acidental
Engineered
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You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.
Edgar Degas
You
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The middle classes have a truly extraordinary conception of society. They really believe that human beings . . . have real existence only if they make money or help to make it.
Friedrich Engels
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Classes
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
Novalis
Character Conception
Deeply
Ever
Fate
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Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.
George Soros
Stock market
Grow out
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Prominent role
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If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.
George Soros
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Life
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But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
James Dean
Behavior
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Far
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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
James Watson
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I have my own religion. My conception of religion is being to the other fellow what you would like for him to be to you and do what you think is necessary to be the type of man that God could appreciate
Howard Hughes
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The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.
Billy Idol
Biggest misconception
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The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
Alva Myrdal
Misconception
Victory
Worth
Age
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There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.
Aneurin Bevan
There
Can
Immaculate
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I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is.
Anne Rice
I
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
Anton Chekhov
The world
Nothing
Our conception
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The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.
Auguste Comte
The law
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The opinions held by most people about the gods are not true conceptions of them but fallacious notions, according to which awful penalties are meted out to the evil and the greatest of blessings to the good.
Epicurus
Opinions
People
Gods
Evil
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God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer
Giacomo Casanova
God
Admit
Possibility
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Human life begins at conception and Abortion kills babies.
Obianuju Ekeocha
Human life
Begins
At conception
Abortion
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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
John Cage
Error
Failure
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Actuality
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There's a misconception that many people have- If I marry the right person, we shouldn't have to work at staying in love, it should just happen.
Godman Akinlabi
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Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.
John Rawls
Assume
Threat
Advantage
Justice
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We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception
John Rawls
Suppose
Everyone
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
Jules Verne
Human
Mind
Conceptions
Supernatural
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
Martin Heidegger
Poets
Vanguard
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Being
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