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"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."
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"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."

"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."

"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."

"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."

"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

"There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts."

"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."
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"A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught."


"I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love."


"Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!"


"One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end."
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