Constitutes Quotes
292 quotes by 248 authors
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Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.
— Theodosius Dobzhansky
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Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be…
— Walter Brueggemann
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The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest…
— Weston La Barre
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Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which…
— Samuel Johnson
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It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude.
— Joseph Cook
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That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
— Bergen Evans
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What if your husband’s faults are God’s tools to shape you? What if the very thing that most bugs you about your man constitutes God’s…
— Gary L. Thomas
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If you desire truly to live you will cease trying to find magic tricks and short-cuts to life and learn the simple laws of being,…
— Herbert M. Shelton
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Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It…
— Medard Boss
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Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.
— Lawrence Weiner
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The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.
— John Charles Polanyi
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Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.
— Richard Stallman
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Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay…
— Peter Drucker
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The good of our soul is more important than that of our body; and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of our neighbor to…
— Pope Pius XII
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.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final…
— David Hume
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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. . . . He must not be afraid to…
— Walter Benjamin
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Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get…
— Katherine Dunn
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I need not to be afraid of the void. The void is part of my person. I need to enter consciously into it. To try…
— Michael Novak
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The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to…
— Carl Jung
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Retention of operational control of its air is important to the Corps' air-ground team, as air constitutes a significant part of its offensive firepower.
— Keith B. McCutcheon
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