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Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved. ↗

— Hans Kung

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If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations. ↗

— Nguyen Cao Ky

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For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell. ↗

— Josiah Royce

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A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

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It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment. ↗

— George Saunders

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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values. ↗

— Arthur M. Schlesinger

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I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths. ↗

— Steven Seagal

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The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

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