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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons, it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn't there. Or ignore what is. We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality. We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole. – Alan Lightman	added by JokerGem 9 months ago
I know well that not all countries share the same interests, don't have the same conceptions, don't have necessarily the same allies. – French President François Hollande	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There has been recorded mating between different pairs over the last few years, but not conceptions, based on a recent health examination conducted, both animals have a regular estrus cycle, but no conception has been recorded. – George Paul	Found on CNN 9 years ago
There has been recorded mating between different pairs over the last few years but not conceptions, based on a recent health examination conducted, both animals have a regular estrus cycles but no conception has been recorded. – George Paul	Found on CNN 9 years ago
...exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity. – Gustave Flaubert, "Madame Bovary", ch. 12	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave. – Edward Morgan Forster	added by anonymous 14 years ago

In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons, it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn't there. Or ignore what is. We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality. We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.

– Alan Lightman

added by JokerGem
9 months ago

I know well that not all countries share the same interests, don't have the same conceptions, don't have necessarily the same allies.

– French President François Hollande

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There has been recorded mating between different pairs over the last few years, but not conceptions, based on a recent health examination conducted, both animals have a regular estrus cycle, but no conception has been recorded.

– George Paul

Found on CNN
9 years ago

There has been recorded mating between different pairs over the last few years but not conceptions, based on a recent health examination conducted, both animals have a regular estrus cycles but no conception has been recorded.

– George Paul

Found on CNN
9 years ago

...exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity.

– Gustave Flaubert, "Madame Bovary", ch. 12

added by anonymous
13 years ago

All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.

– George Bernard Shaw

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.

– Edward Morgan Forster

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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