Consists Quotes

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Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection. — Edmund Burke
The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal… — Ivan Illich
The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly,… — Simone Weil
Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives. — Simone Weil
One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of… — William Godwin
Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist. — Norman Mailer
To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger consists… — Primo Levi
The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul. — Joseph Joubert
I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that… — Gail Porter
A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists… — Ali Smith
But what sets Europe apart is we insist on a social model that consists of solidarity, equal opportunity and a certain amount of redistribution. — Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your… — Douglas Pagels
As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two… — Ernst Mayr
The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped… — Ivan Pavlov
The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible. — D. Elton Trueblood
Cheerfulness consists in not regarding things as our own, but as entrusted to us by God for the benefit of our fellow-servants. It consists in… — Symeon the New Theologian
Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person. — Eric Hoffer
English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off...Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son. — Dave Barry
We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. If He is, nothing… — Bertrand Russell
Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those… — Harold Rosenberg
Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
If the structure that serves as a template (the gene or virus molecule) consists of, say, two parts, which are themselves complementary In structure, then… — Linus Pauling
The only difference between elements and compounds consists in the supposed impossibility of proving the so-called elements to be compounds. — Wolfgang Ostwald
The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come… — John Steinbeck
For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else. — Stephen King

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