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Laozi Philosopher
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"By steadily disciplining the animal nature, until it becomes one pointed, it is possible to establish conscious awareness of The Eternal."

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Laozi Philosopher
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"The one who is conscious (in Tao) can't speak. The one who can speak is not conscious (centered in Tao)"

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Gene Wolfe Author
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"You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree."

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Marshall McLuhan Philosopher, Media Theorist
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"While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious."

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Sienna Miller Actress
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"I think American men are more conscious of putting up a good impression. There's more of an earthiness to Englishmen. But Americans aren't afraid to come up and say, "Hi, I'd like to go out with you." Englishmen are far more sheepish about it."

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Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian
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"The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself."

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Ingmar Bergman Film Director, Screenwriter
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"I am conscious about myself and everything, and then suddenly, or slowly, my conscious fades out. Switches off. And it's not existing, and that's a marvelous feeling. That from existing, I am not existing. And at that moment, nothing can happen to me."

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