Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist, Philosopher
"We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?"
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Conception
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Moliere
Playwright, Actor
"Long is the road from conception to completion."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them."
Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God."
Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one conception - charity to our fellow beings."
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"It is a long road from conception to completion."
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"I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people."
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"Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them."
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"I think the materialist conception of history is valid."
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"Every human being is under construction from conception to death."
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"To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it."
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"The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India."
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"Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception."
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"Life begins at conception, but allow early abortions."
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"Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them."
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