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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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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Just because you become a mother, it doesn't mean you lose who you are.
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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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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.
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The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on government orders; conscience supersedes the authority of the law of the state.
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Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.
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All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.
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I wouldn't go to war over Ukraine.
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Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.
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Song writing has been a lifeline for me.
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He pressed himself into me and kissed my neck, and it was as if everything strong and solid inside me, heart and bones and muscle and gut, softened and melted from the heat of him.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
