Constituted Quotes
136 quotes by 119 authors
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Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.
— William J. Brennan
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There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.
— Judith Butler
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A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not…
— Margaret Fuller
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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people…
— Aberjhani
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I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub of…
— Joseph Dalton Hooker
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You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general view of the…
— Louis Agassiz
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I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set about it is…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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I can tell you this. It is not going to be evenly constituted and when she was Speaker Pelosi, she certainly showed no interests in…
— Trey Gowdy
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One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves…
— Abraham Lincoln
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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
— Victor Hugo
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The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority...…
— Frank I. Cobb
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Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the smell of a…
— Oliver Sacks
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At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the…
— William Osler
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Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and…
— Victor Hugo
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The cell, this elementary keystone of living nature, is far from being a peculiar chemical giant molecule or even a living protein and as such…
— Oscar Hertwig
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No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are constituted…
— Paul Feyerabend
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In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
— Charles Sturt
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To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have…
— Charles Darwin
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