#conceived

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny. ↗

— Simone Weil

#defined #door #every #kind #morality

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#conceived #who #yearns

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#i #i think #make #most #notions

It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#business #comic #comic books #draw #embarrassing

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#also #any #bare #being #cannot

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s. ↗

— John Major

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It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

#clearly #conceived #doubtless #great #grows

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#clearly #conceived #directed #effective #ends

Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything. ↗

— Chad Smith

#cause #everything #forget #jamming #know

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. ↗

— Josiah Stamp

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