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“It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on the way. Legislation has been proposed to create a US Department of Peace. In the propsed Department of Peace it would organize our present system into one conscious effort to improve humanity in achieving peace, where true safety lies.”

“We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dream, a hinterland of energy which has an independent existence of its own and laws of its own: laws which motivate all our thoughts and our actions.”

World Dream Action Law Lying Energy Existence Normal Ordinary Conscious Independent Everyday Surface Impulse Our Thoughts Our Actions Casual Beneath The Surface

Book:The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue

Source: The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue

“Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.”

Men Lying Lost Conscious Bitter Desert Sand Grain Jest Unconsciousness Grains Of Sand

Author:Amos Bronson Alcott

“It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.”

Lying Artist Power Emotional Painting Intellectual Conscious Response Association Subconscious Emotional Response

Author:Thomas S. Buechner

“The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.”

Writing Believe Lying Force Secret Style Speech Conscious Verbs Adjectives Nouns Pedigree Parts Of Speech

Book:Among my Books, etc

Source: Among my Books, etc

“Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his own heartbeats. Lying beside him is his wife, lying on her right side and enjoying her sleep.”

Thinking Mind Book Stories Lying Enjoy Sound Sides Sleep Wife Bed Conscious Breathing Sensitive Luther Heartbeat

Book:Appointment in Samarra: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Appointment in Samarra: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“All men are body conscious. If they say they're not, they're lying.”

Ifs Men Body Lying Conscious

Author:Gilles Marini

“The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.”

World Mind Seems Lying Roles Conscious Traditional Realms Visible Unconscious Impediments Unconscious Mind Conscious Mind

Author:Augustus

“The mind that's conscious of its rectitude, Laughs at the lies of rumor.”

Mind Lying Laughing Integrity Conscious Rumor Rectitude

Author:Ovid