Consisting Quotes
71 quotes by 62 authors
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their…
— Aristotle
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The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory.
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
— George Santayana
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It's a strange sort of attack, to be sure: a wonderfully pacific attack, a supportive attack, an attack without the slightest intention or capacity to…
— Hendrik Hertzberg
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Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And our…
— Karl Popper
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A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and…
— John C. Calhoun
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The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen.
— Robert Breault
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Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought.
— Ernst Mach
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With all reserve we advance the view that a supernova represents the transition of an ordinary star into a neutron star consisting mainly of neutrons.…
— Fritz Zwicky
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[The taxing power of the state] divides the community into two great classes: one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes and, of…
— John C. Calhoun
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Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.
— Ved Mehta
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This gospel has often been spoken of as a way of life. This however is not quite accurate. Consisting as it does of the principles…
— Marion G. Romney
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Psy Free was a trio consisting of guitar, organ and drums. I was the drummer. We did what the name suggests: psychedelic, free music.
— Klaus Schulze
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I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For…
— Michel Foucault
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O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at…
— Napoleon Hill
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Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Does the ‘Paranormal’ lie within the margins between the ‘Metacosm’ [a larger reality beyond the macro/microcosms consisting of 10 dimensions or more] and the virtual…
— Chuck Missler
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But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across a continent? If…
— Peter Kropotkin
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I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.
— Mitch Daniels
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