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It's an outrage — an absolute outrage, i can conceive of no justifiable reason for doing this. – Tom Witt	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive. – Napoleon Hill	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it. – Havelock Ellis	added by anonymous 10 years ago
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. – Anthony Trollope	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Reprove not in their wrath incens?d men, Good counsel comes clean out of season then; But when his fury is appeased and past, He will conceive his fault and mend at last: When he is cool and calm, then utter it; No man gives physic in the midst o? th? fit. – Randolph	added by anonymous 12 years ago
I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind". – Robert Millikan	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. – Walt Disney	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other. – Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it - three minutes; to collect the data in it - all my life. – F. Scott Fitzgerald	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it. – Benjamin Franklin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being. – Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II,72)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese. – Charles de Gaulle	added by anonymous 13 years ago
You cannot conceive the many without the one. – Plato	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind. – Robert Millikan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. ... If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude. – Jesse Louis Jackson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve. – Napolean Hill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses – Charles De Gaulle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. – Nicolas Boileau	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. – Thomas Jefferson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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. – A Bartlett Giamatti	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. – Jonathan Swift	added by anonymous 14 years ago
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought. – Lin Yutang	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. – Rene Descartes	added by anonymous 14 years ago

It's an outrage — an absolute outrage, i can conceive of no justifiable reason for doing this.

– Tom Witt

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

– Napoleon Hill

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

– Havelock Ellis

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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.

– Anthony Trollope

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Reprove not in their wrath incens?d men, Good counsel comes clean out of season then; But when his fury is appeased and past, He will conceive his fault and mend at last: When he is cool and calm, then utter it; No man gives physic in the midst o? th? fit.

– Randolph

added by anonymous
12 years ago

I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind".

– Robert Millikan

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

– Walt Disney

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.

– Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville

added by anonymous
13 years ago

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it - three minutes; to collect the data in it - all my life.

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

– Benjamin Franklin

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.

– Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II,72)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese.

– Charles de Gaulle

added by anonymous
13 years ago

You cannot conceive the many without the one.

– Plato