Quotes with consisting

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• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

  George Santayana
  Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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• A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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• Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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• In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

  Anne Frank
  Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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• Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought.

  Ernest Mach
   
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• Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• retentiveness
• philosophical
• historically
• successfully
• presentment
• expenditure

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