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Which character serves as Pinocchio's conscience in the 1940 animated film?

conscience

[kon-shuhns] / ˈkɒn ʃəns /


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President Isaac Herzog, who holds a mostly ceremonial role, called Levine in hospital on Saturday, saying the attack was "outrageous and shocking" and weighed on his conscience.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

The government of China, which represents a great civilization and has become a global power, shouldn’t feel threatened by a 78-year-old publisher whose only weapons are his faith, his words and his conscience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

"She got stuck into gritty, controversial, but crucial causes partly because she had a fine, natural social conscience, but also to assuage nagging feelings of worthlessness."

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Why we’re to care about this apparent flash of horror, if not of conscience, remains unexplained.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Not the fear of God, but upholding your own sense of honor and obeying your own conscience.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

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

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

Alison said she hoped he and other officers "dig down into their memories, be honest about their failings, unearth their deeply buried consciences and tell the whole truth."

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025

Their hearts and consciences might be as hard as flint, but their pocketbooks were as sensitive as a cat’s whiskers.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep


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