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Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.

~Dev Anand

Topics: Affair Baby Conception Execution Films Final Idea Involved Making Motion Motion Picture Picture Plan Professional Right Thorough Very

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Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception.

~Dick Gephardt

Topics: Begins Cells Conception Division Human Life Process Which

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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Behave Conception Dead Experience Experiences Gain Genius He His Historian Historians How Men Move Must Only Otherwise Personal Personal Experience Some Through Use Who Will World

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The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

~Edward Hopper

Topics: Appears Art Conception Contemporary Decorative Deny Ideal Lead Me Means Movements Painting Purely Seems Some Trend

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Democracy demands that judges confine themselves to a narrow sphere of influence - that is why the late Alexander Bickel called the judiciary the 'Least Dangerous Branch.' In a world governed by a proper conception of their role, judges don't play at being legislators - they leave that job to our elected representatives.

~Edwin Meese

Topics: Alexander Being Branch Conception Confine Dangerous Demands Democracy Elected Governed Influence Job Judges Judiciary Late Least Leave Legislators Narrow Our Play Proper Representatives Role Sphere Themselves Why World

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The Greek conception of a life in harmony with nature found its most complete development in the rationalism of the Renaissance and of the centuries that followed it.

~Elie Metchnikoff

Topics: Centuries Complete Conception Development Followed Found Greek Harmony Life Most Nature Rationalism Renaissance

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Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.

~Elihu Root

Topics: Against Among Conception Constitutional Duties Government Great Important Just Living Mass More Nation Nothing Others Owes Peace People Preservation Rights Secure Than Which

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Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because of the conventional conception of womanly purity, has been intimidated from conceding to men a deep insight into her erotic life experiences.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Because Been Between Conception Confessions Conflict Conventional Deep Desired Experiences Her Insight Intimidated Justly Learn Life Life Experiences Man Men Purity Regard Should Woman Womanly Women

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The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Beginning Conception Dogma Esteemed Even Formula Immoral Legal Love Love Is Marriage Might Moral Morality New Opposed Simplest Society Still Up Which Without Women Words

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My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal.

~Emmeline Pankhurst

Topics: Began Child Childhood Comfortable Conception Even False Family Feel Home Ideal Incomplete Instinctively Lacking Love My Own Own Protected Relations Some Something Still Very While Young Young Child

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