Constitutes Quotes
292 quotes by 245 authors
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
— Confucius
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The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage…
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find…
— Thomas A. Edison
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
— Epicurus
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The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because…
— Paul Farmer
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What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable,…
— Hermann Hesse
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
— Victor Hugo
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Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point…
— Muhammad Iqbal
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
— Helen Keller
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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
— Fran Lebowitz
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The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black…
— Nelson Mandela
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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes…
— John Dos Passos
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Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize…
— Albert Pike
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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
— Sting
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The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal…
— George Edward Woodberry
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Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate…
— Paul Fussell
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And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or…
— Anne Rice
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