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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.
I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.
I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.
My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.
The 'Missa Mirabilis' is a big work which was conceived for a large organ and a lot of singers.
The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.
A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
I was conceived after doctors told my mother she'd never have children. I'm a miracle - we all are.
The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.
Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
When you hold something you created, drew, and conceived, and now here it is in 3D plastic - it is a rush.
No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.
Each work has its own space, which should neither be conceived as a sort of cage nor regarded as extending to infinity.
It generally takes me about nine months from the point the book is conceived to the point my editor sends it off to be typeset.
The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing.
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.
'Lord of the Rings' was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within that context.
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
The mini-Moog was conceived originally as a session musician's axe, something a guy could carry to the studio, do a gig and walk out.
I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! - I was born to write a novel.
I've been asked a lot lately if I had a hard time getting pregnant. I've been asked how I conceived. In the same way everyone else does!
My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.
I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
I love when a song is conceived as a jigsaw puzzle in the studio, and then it's a natural to play live. That's my gauge of success for a song.
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.
'Petrushka' was not conceived as a children's ballet, even though it involves puppets. We're on the outer limits of what's child-appropriate here.
The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived.
People think the world of music is so great, and it's just not. It's so boring, the way music is conceived and then declawed for public consumption.
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
