#conscious

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

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Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to use in whatever way we find convenient. ↗

— Peter Singer

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Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.' ↗

— Laura Riding

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The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder. ↗

— Kenny Rogers

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The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

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Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. ↗

— Joyce Brothers

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One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories. ↗

— Dario Fo

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In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

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