#consc

Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey. ↗

— Charles Edison

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No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

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In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

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I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

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Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. ↗

— Robert Collier

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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. ↗

— Aaron Copland

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It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles. ↗

— Davy Crockett

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The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do. ↗

— David Cronenberg

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