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  • Brent Scowcroft Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Karl Marx Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Mary Wollstonecraft Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Charles Morgan The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.
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  • Aldous Huxley The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Robert Frost The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Abraham Cowley The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Augustus William Hare True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Josh Billings Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Abdolkarim Soroush We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
    Abdolkarim Soroush
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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  • Louise Erdrich What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Woodrow Wilson You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Thomas Fuller Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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