#conscious

Conflict is the beginning of consciousness. ↗

— M. Esther Harding

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I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible. ↗

— Richard Thompson

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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it. ↗

— Sam Abell

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With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books. ↗

— Peter Abrahams

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A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it. ↗

— Ferdinand Christian Baur

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Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company. ↗

— Michael Bergdahl

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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. ↗

— Edward Bernays

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If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness. ↗

— Gunther Grass

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