#conceived

Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived? ↗

— Boris Becker

#ask #conceived #does #how #parents

I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors weren't sure I'd be able to reproduce. I was prepared for a rough road, and then out of nowhere we conceived. ↗

— Holly Marie Combs

#canyon #conceived #doctors #few #grand

I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal. ↗

— James J. Gibson

#animal #assume #conceived #ecological #environment

America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation. ↗

— Nick Rahall

#also #america #any #attack #brutal

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#directly #discovery #effectively #error #false

No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#conceived #far #how #how far #knows

Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object. ↗

— William Ames

#action #active #agent #always #because

But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#became #began #came #clear #conceived

Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#am #american #battling #conceived #democracy

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

#book #brink #composed #conceived #constructed