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"The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it."
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"The question stayed with me every day, through every class, through every Op. I felt its teeth tighten around the back of my neck each time I was dismissed without a second look; it had locked it's jaws and wouldn't let me or my conscience go."

"The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience."

"Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death."

"All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks."

"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

"Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience."

"The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience."

"Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience."

"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune."

"We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience."
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"A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises."

"People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times."

"I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day."

"Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing."
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