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The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his… — Alfred Armand Montapert
Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon. Nothing is… — D. V. Ager
Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of… — Thomas Lickona
Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive availability… — Pope John Paul II
The reality is that our economy now consists of driving 250 million vehicles around the suburbs and malls and eating fried chicken. We don't manufacture… — Joe Bageant
There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that it can not… — Bengt I. Samuelsson
Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other… — Clifford Allbutt
The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations. — Isaac Newton
Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life. — Leo Tolstoy
The whole discord of this world consists in discords. — Seneca the Younger
Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired. — Leo Tolstoy
If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy. — Carl Jung
The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite… — Rabindranath Tagore
Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just. — Thomas Jefferson
Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two… — Charles Kingsley
The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice… — James Freeman Clarke
The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore,… — Oliver Goldsmith
Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. — Quentin Crisp
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in… — Edmund Burke
The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have… — Bertrand Russell
The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting. — John Cage

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