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  • Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.
  • Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

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  • Aristotle Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Aldous Huxley The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Alexander Hamilton Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Aristotle Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Coco Chanel Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
    Coco Chanel
    French couturier (1883 - 1971)
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  • John Updike Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Thomas Paine I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Alfred Marshall It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
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  • Thomas Paine It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Mark Twain Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Alfred Marshall Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.
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  • Paracelsus Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
    Paracelsus
    Swiss doctor and alchemist, born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493 - 1541)
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  • Leon Blum Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
    Leon Blum
    French politician
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  • Gerald W. Johnson Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.
    Gerald W. Johnson
    American journalist, editor, essayist, historian and biographer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Blaise Pascal Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Poverty consist in feeling poor.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Napoleon Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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