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"Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered."
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"Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience."
"Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale."
"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."
"Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience."
"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."
"The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness."
"We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society."
"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."
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"If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power."
"Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered."
"You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow."
"Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it."
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