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conceiving

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1. conceiving - Noun

2. conceiving - Verb

Meaning

of Conceive

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube. Norman Mailer

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end. Simone de Beauvoir

The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility. William Stanley Jevons

The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back to the human from the non-human – human gods merely, practice-gods who embody the errors which man makes in first conceiving the non-human. Laura Riding

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it! Charles Baudelaire

Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how to live; and the most beautiful characters the world has ever seen, have been those who received and lived these precepts without once conceiving their beauty. Horace Bushnell

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