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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
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A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
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Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
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Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed.
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Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
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If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
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It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
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Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
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Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
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Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.
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Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.
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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
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