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| I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart. | | Anne Frank | |
| In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. | | Marshall McLuhan | |
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| It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us. | | Samuel Butler | |
| My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious | | Karl Kraus | |
| Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it | | Albert Einstein | |
| Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life | | Norman Cousins | |
| Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud. | | George Eliot | |
| Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. | | Anais Nin | |
| The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. | | D.H. Lawrence | |
| The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle | | Abraham Lincoln | |
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| The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in a stronger or weaker degree, as force of members is given them in a greater or lesser degree. It may be strengthened by exercise, as may an | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor. | | Winston Churchill | |
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| There is one thing alone - that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience | | Euripides | |
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| With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own | | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | |