Constituent Quotes
47 quotes by 44 authors
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Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its…
— Annie Besant
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Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and…
— Giacomo Casanova
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So I think there's going to be a constituent backlash against this thing soon, as they see it moving in that direction...Whether they can pass…
— Steve King
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In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can exist…
— Joseph Story
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The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in…
— James Madison
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Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.
— Erich Fromm
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Emergent properties result from interactions between individual parts, so it follows that a top down analytical approach that begins with the whole and dissects it…
— Manuel De Landa
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So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises…
— Plato
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If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and…
— L. Neil Smith
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But when it has been shown by the researches of Pasteur that the septic property of the atmosphere depended not on the oxygen, or any…
— Joseph Lister
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Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity, more central even than humility: the power to wait,…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The question before us is, whether people of African ancestry compose a portion of this people, and are constituent members of this sovereignty? We think…
— Roger Brooke Taney
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The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living…
— James Lovelock
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Religious pluralism is neither mere coexistence nor forced consensus. It is a form of proactive cooperation that affirms the identity of the constituent communities while…
— Eboo Patel
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Hope is an essential constituent of human life.
— Benjamin Franklin
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By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those crops to the…
— Justus von Liebig
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Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.
— Clay Shirky
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People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of…
— Bob Black
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A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by one impulse, and…
— Thomas Nelson Page
Who Wrote These Constituent Quotes
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