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  • Mark Twain Education consists mainly that what we have unlearned.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Aristotle Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Ayn Rand Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.
    Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Helen Rowland Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • George Santayana Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • George Santayana Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Mikhail Bakunin Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
    Mikhail Bakunin
    Russian politicial theorist (1814 - 1876)
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  • Berthold Auerbach Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Mark Twain Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • John D. Rockefeller Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Aldous Huxley Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • John Mason Happiness consists in activity - it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.
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  • Benjamin Franklin Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Hector Hugh Munro He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Anne Stevenson I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Anna Quindlen I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Mark Twain If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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