"We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?"
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"It is a long road from conception to completion."
"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."
"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."
"I think the materialist conception of history is valid."
"Every human being is under construction from conception to death."
"To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it."
"The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India."
"Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception."
"Life begins at conception, but allow early abortions."
"Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them."