Sentient
Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues.
One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.
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Sentient Quotations
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
Jacques Barzun
There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
Frances Wright
The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.
Grace Slick
The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
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