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"I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity."
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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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"Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves."

"What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is."

"Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do they're trying to get people to see that the world can be represented in an alternative way and that it's right."

"The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde."

"You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity."

"Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that."
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