conscience
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May I suggest a workshop on growing a conscience?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
“Where has our conscience gone as a society?”
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
However, French Ambassador Jerome Bonnafont described Turk on Friday as " a voice of conscience" who demonstrated "rigor and impartiality" during his first term.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Yet there is no viable model of religious freedom that simply leaves everyone alone to follow his or her conscience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Amy’s conscience preached her a little sermon from that text, then and there, and she did what many of us do not always do, took the sermon to heart, and straightway put it in practice.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
But the proposal would let us show how we disagree with each other about our shared political life, and so help direct our collective agency without sacrificing the individual voices of our consciences.
From Slate ● May 11, 2026
She urged Labour MPs to "look into their consciences" and back a new inquiry by the Privileges Committee.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
The Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, for example, brought together Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish Americans who opposed the war because it violated the nation’s ideals and religious consciences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
The French film legend says that the most important thing for her about a film "is that it changes lives, changes people's consciences."
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026
They satisfied their consciences with the thought that Hrothgar was now so strong a ruler that no one would dare to attack him.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
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