Consists Quotes
1176 Consists quotes by 744 unique authors
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We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not…
— Evo Morales
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
— Friedrich Engels
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Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
— Talcott Parsons
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But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then there…
— Martin Buber
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Praise consists in the love of God, in wonder at the goodness of God, in recognition of the gifts of God, in seeing God in…
— Henry Edward Manning
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All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of…
— Elbert Hubbard
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QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The mineral kingdom consists of the fossil substances found in the earth. These are either entirely destitute of organic structure, or, having once possessed it,…
— Torbern Bergman
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Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.
— Samuel Johnson
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The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can be arranged however…
— Robert Musil
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I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to…
— Salvador Dali
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True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of heart…
— Charles James
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A western buckaroo, I share his scorn for people who go camping by the book, relying on the authority of some half-assed assistant scoutmaster whose…
— Wallace Stegner
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Salvation now consists of a deep wrestling in our souls with the sinfulness of our hearts, the depth of our depravity, and the desperation of…
— David Platt
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There is only one way, really, to get into a state of living, and that's live There is no substitute for an all-out, over-the-ramparts, howling…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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True beauty consists of purity of heart.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I think that the ideals of youth are fine, clear and unencumbered; and that the real art of living consists in keeping alive the conscience…
— Rockwell Kent
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Virtue consists in fleeing vice.
— Horace
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The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.
— Mark Twain
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Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine…
— Allen Tate
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True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.
— Paulo Freire
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Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.
— H. L. Mencken
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Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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