Consists Quotes

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The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level. — Edward Burnett Tylor
It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom which is a… — Iris Murdoch
There remain a few people in NASA who are there to accomplish great things; but most of NASA now consists of the people who accomplished… — Benjamin Franklin
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to… — Antoine Lavoisier
Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members. — Peter Tork
The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects; objects are distinguished… — Carl Linnaeus
I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense. — E. W. Howe
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action. — Woodrow Wilson
According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that, what is called… — Swami Vivekananda
Do not Bodies and Light act mutually upon one another; that is to say, Bodies upon Light in emitting, reflecting, refracting and inflecting it, and… — Isaac Newton
Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether. — Thomas Young
We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic… — James Clerk Maxwell
What, then, is light according to the electromagnetic theory? It consists of alternate and opposite rapidly recurring transverse magnetic disturbances, accompanied with electric displacements, the… — James Clerk Maxwell
Perfection consists in a constant perseverance to acquire the virtues and become proficient in their practice, because on God's road, not to advance is to… — Vincent de Paul
[W]isdom consists in following Providence step by step. And you can be sure of the truth of a maxim which seems paradoxical, namely, that he… — Vincent de Paul
An Eskimo shaman said, Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls. — Annie Dillard
I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing in statistics as… — Claude Bernard
Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own… — Eric Hoffer
It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of… — Richard Whately
Give your children regular, daily doses of Vitamin N. This vital nutrient consists simply of the most character-building two-letter word in the English language No...Unfortunately,… — John Rosemond
Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God. — Thomas Aquinas
Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or producing,… — Jacques Maritain
The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people. — Jacques Maritain
Greatness really consists in doing some great deed with little means. — Russell Conwell
It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion. — George Bernard Shaw

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