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"It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate."
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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."

"The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King."

"Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience."

"We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society."

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

"Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority."

"When the conscience runs pure and strong in the heart of thinking humanity, there is not power in any fundamentalism to take hold of the human civilization and drag it back to the medieval days of barbarianism."

"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."

"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."
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"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."

"If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies."

"The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in."

"If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything."
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