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«The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Christianity,
Liberty,
Religion
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Americans, combine, combines, conceive, conceive of, intimately, notions, The Americans
«I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing»
Author: Bela Bartok
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conceive of
«We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.»
«When I met Genet I could not conceive of him as the author of his plays. He looks like a terrified baby.»
«The New York Times ran a Tom Tomorrow cartoon sneering about Americans who believe with 'unwavering faith in an invisible omniscient deity who favors those born in the middle of the North American land mass.' This is how liberals conceive of America: an undifferentiated land mass in the middle of North America.»
Author: Ann Coulter
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cartoon, cartoons, conceive of, deity, favors, Liberals, North, North America, North American, omniscient, ran, sneering, The New York Times, the North, tom, Tom Tomorrow, undifferentiated, unwavering
«I mentally conceive of some movable projected on a horizontal plane all impediments being put aside. Now it is evident ... that the equable motion on this plane would be perpetual if the plane were of infinite extent; but if we assume it to be ended,»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
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conceive of, equable, horizontal, horizontal plane, impediments, movable, projected, The Plane
«We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men and members»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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commonwealth, commonwealths, conceive of, the Commonwealth
«No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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antiquity, commonplace, conceive of, daylight, gloomy, happily, native, native land, picturesque, trial
«We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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conceive, conceive of, dissolved, dissolving, elements, formed, require, return, returns, seed
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