Izaak Walton 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.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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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.
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I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.
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You all had something to do with keeping me employed.
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If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive.
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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!
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Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.
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To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.
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Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
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Just because you become a mother, it doesn't mean you lose who you are.
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A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.
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One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.
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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.
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If somebody had told me my method would not work I nevertheless would have tried it out to make sure for myself, for when I am wrong only one thing convinces me of it, and that is, to lose money. And I am only right when I make money. That is speculating.
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Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
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A sleeping pill will never take the place of a clear conscience.
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There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.
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Recovery proceeding excellently. Am sure that the crushing of the Kazan Czechs and whiteguards, as well as of the kulak extortioners supporting them, will be exemplarily ruthless.
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I always got a lump in my throat whenever I walked up those marble steps to argue a case before the court.
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I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when it comes to happiness, spirituality, economics and creative genius.
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The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
