Constitutes Quotes
292 quotes by 248 authors
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Dreaming is a form of action. Idleness is a form of action. The idle man stares at the sky and sees what constitutes our eternal…
— Philippe Starck
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What constitutes the authentic human being?
— Philip K. Dick
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This gospel we have received is one of sacrifice, service and self-abnegation from beginning to end. That is what constitutes the straight and narrow way…
— George F. Richards
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Unfortunately our children today seem to spend less and less time with their overworked parents, and so they draw more information about the world from…
— Michael Medved
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As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.
— Milan Kundera
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Gold is the most precious of all commodities; gold constitutes treasure, and he who possesses it has all he needs in the world, as also…
— Christopher Columbus
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As a society, we need to get lots more flexible about what constitutes beauty. It isn't a particular hair color or a particular body type;…
— Victoria Moran
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Of course, we can distinguish between males and females; we can also, if we choose, distinguish between different age categories; but any more advanced distinction…
— Michel Houellebecq
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The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
— Moliere
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What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I would say that failure to terraform Mars constitutes failure to live up to our human nature and a betrayal of our responsibility as members…
— Robert Zubrin
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Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.
— Peter Drucker
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The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a…
— Eric Hoffer
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Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most compelling…
— Erich Fromm
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Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and those who possess…
— Louis Kronenberger
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Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine that the…
— Gary Saul Morson
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This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions…
— Aldous Huxley
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Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they…
— Emile M. Cioran
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