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  • Albert Camus If there is sin against life, it consists… in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Calvin Coolidge In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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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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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Journalism consists largely in saying ''Lord James is dead'' to people who never knew Lord James was alive.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Plato Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • John Stuart Mill Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Daniel Webster Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Josh Billings Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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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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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Aaron Allston Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
    Aaron Allston
    American game designer and author (1960 - 2014)
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  • Woody Allen Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Archibald Alexander Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • Edward Hoagland Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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