Quotes with consciousness-raising

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  • Barbara Kingsolver Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Louisa May Alcott Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Dean William R. Inge Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • George Santayana Consciousness is a very superficial thing.
    Letters of G. Santayana
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • E. M. Cioran Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Aldous Huxley Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ben Bernanke Consumers going through foreclosure typically will see their credit scores drop, raising longer-term questions about their ability to rebound financially and perhaps pursue a more sustainable home purchase at some later point.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bill Hybels Creating planets didn't seem to be much of a problem for God. Neither was raising the dead. Nothing is too difficult for God to handle, but we won't see much proof of this until we actually ask him to handle it.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Andrew Carnegie Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Carine Roitfeld Either you are a good Virgo or a crazy Virgo! The good Virgo side of me is educating and raising the children - being there for them.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Eric Butterworth Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • Henry James Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Carol Bellamy For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel For me, consciousness is non-local, not limited to the body, and can exist independent of it.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Iris Murdoch Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Ayn Rand Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Ernest Bramah He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.
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