Ernest Gaines Quotes
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
Lajos Kossuth
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
Saint-John Perse
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
Irving Layton
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I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size.
Dana Hill
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May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
Albert Einstein
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Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.
Oswald Chambers
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
Alan Paton
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All I know is we're going into the All-Star beak on a positive note. But we haven't achieved anything. Nobody has done anything except gotten to the All-Star break.
Alonzo Mourning
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By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.
Edward T. Hall
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A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.
Austin Phelps
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Being a Dad is the greatest, except for assembling things.
Conan O'Brien
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It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except for playing guitar and writing words.
Noel Gallagher Oasis
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I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.
Robert Frost
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The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea. Meanwhile, the feast continued. The peasants were forgetting their misery: dance and alcohol numbed them, carrying away their shipwrecked conscience in the unreal and shady regions where the savage madness of the African gods lay waiting.
Jacques Roumain
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I grew up at a time where I think most people had a social and political conscience. Some of the biggest changes in our country's political history happened at the time I was growing up, so I was raised to be a part of those things and to participate and I will continue to do that as much as I can.
George Clooney
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Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
John Stuart Mill
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Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.
Stella Benson
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For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.
Adam Faith
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Well, we can look each other shortly - either we check that we have to play or one gives a sign to end.
Der W Böhse Onkelz
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I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.
Ernest Gaines