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  • Bayard Taylor
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat 1825-1878
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    As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
  • George Bernard Shaw
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic 1856-1950
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    As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
  • Anthony Trollope
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer 1815-1882
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    As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
  • Oscar Wilde
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer 1854-1900
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    Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
  • Caleb Cushing
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat 1800-1879
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    Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States.
  • Bruce Lee
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist 1940-1973
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    Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.
    Source: Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 6
  • A. Bartlett Giamatti
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University 1938-1989
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    Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
  • Ayn Rand
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher 1905-1982
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    God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
  • Caleb Cushing
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat 1800-1879
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    Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.
  • Virginia Satir
    Virginia Satir
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    I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.
  • Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman 1809-1865
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    I can see how a man can look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher 1533-1592
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    I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
  • Anne Hutchinson
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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    I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.
  • Thomas Jefferson
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman 1743-1826
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    I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
  • George Bernard Shaw
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic 1856-1950
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    I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
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