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  • We are sensient beings but it sure appears that there are other critters who could be or are capable of a 'state of being' if we had the capability to thoroughly understand it.

    A Strange, Sad Baboon Story 2008

  • She felt the cowardice of it, his calmly placing her in a superior class, and placing himself inaccessibly apart, in an inferior, as if she, the sensient woman who was fond of him, did not count.

    The Prussian Officer and Other Stories 2003

  • These constrictions prevented the corporeal magnetic fluid from properly establishing the body's natural animal polarities and aligning them with that of the universal magnetic ether that flowed through all of creation and animated all sensient beings.

    Re-collecting Spontaneous Overflows 1998

  • I go forth, and I leave the lovely open darkness of my sensient self revealed; when I go forth in the wonder of vision to dwell upon the beloved, or upon the wonder of the world, I go from the center of the glad breast, through the eyes, and who will may look into the full soft darkness of me, rich with my undiscovered presence.

    Fantasia of the Unconscious 1907

  • No sensient country on the face of the earth will ever trust them again.

    Yahoo! News: United Nations 2010

  • Sensient is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.www. sensient-tech.com

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2009

  • Sensient is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.www. sensient-tech.com

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2009

  • Are you telling me that in 1803, they knew that the child was viable, sensient, and had personhood rights??????

    jillstanek.com 2008

  • Are you telling me that in 1803, they knew that the child was viable, sensient, and had personhood rights??????

    jillstanek.com 2008

  • Are you telling me that in 1803, they knew that the child was viable, sensient, and had personhood rights??????

    jillstanek.com 2008

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