Clement Clay may refer to:
- Clement Comer Clay (1789–1866), Governor of Alabama 1835–1837, and U.S. Senator from Alabama 1837–1841
- Clement Claiborne Clay (1816–1882), son of Clement Comer Clay; U.S. Senator from Alabama 1853–1861, and Confederate States senator from Alabama 1861–1863
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“Consciousness is cerebral celebrity—nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize resources long enough to achieve certain typical and “symptomatic” effects—on memory, on the control of behavior and so forth.”
—Daniel Clement Dennett (b. 1942)
“You may melt your metals and cast them into the most beautiful moulds you can; they will never excite me like the forms which this molten earth flows out into. And not only it, but the institutions upon it are plastic like clay in the hands of the potter.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)