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“Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.”

Men Nations Hero Shapes Conscience Men And Women Handful

Author:Barack Obama

“Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.”

Humans Has Beens Reason Knowledge Learning Integrity Shapes Findings Conscience Human Reason

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist language, censored and censoring. Ruthless in its policing duties, it has no desire or purpose other than maintaining the free range of its own narcotic narcissism, its own exclusivity and dominance. However moribund, it is not without effect for it actively thwarts the intellect, stalls conscience, suppresses human potential. Unreceptive to interrogation, it cannot form or tolerate new ideas, shape other thoughts, tell another story, fill baffling silences.”

“Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.”

Life Soul Our Lives Shapes Conscience Mirrors Errors

Author:George Bancroft

“The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.”

Mind Heart Life Is Desire Courses Childhood My Heart Shapes Conscience Pressure Determined Backgrounds

Book:GIFT FROM THE SEA

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“However contradictory the coroner's report — whether he pronounces Consumption or Loneliness or Suicide to be the cause of death — isn't it plain how the true artist-seer actually dies? I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience.”

Humans Doe Artist Dies Causes Loneliness Produce Color Fool Shapes Conscience Sacred Suicide Reports Heavenly Consumption Contradictory Seers True Artists Scruples

Author:J. D. Salinger

“The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. John Knox's gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again.”

Knows Shapes Conscience England Edges Doctrine Rough Scotland Thunder Augustine Rough Edges

Book:Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

“Living through the 1929 Great Depression helped shape my social conscience. During this time, I realized the earth was still the same place, manufacturing plants were still intact, and resources were still there, but people didn’t have money to buy the products. I felt the rules of the game we play by were outmoded and damaging. This began a life-long quest resulting in the conclusions and designs presented in The Venus Project.”

“When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart.”

Thinking Heart Wonder Lord Mystery Shapes Conscience Mere Intellect Unfolding

Book:Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III

Source: Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III