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  • George Bernard Shaw Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • James H. Robinson Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
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  • Antonio Gramsci My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.
    Antonio Gramsci
    Italian writer, politician and political scientist (1891 - 1937)
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  • Albert Einstein My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Anna Quindlen New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Harlan Miller Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
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  • Caroline Knapp On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.'
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Our greatest glory consists not in never failing but in rising every time we fall.
    The Citizen of the World (1762) - door Lien Chi Altangi (Oliver Goldsmith)
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • John Jay Chapman People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this, that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Frances Cornford Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.
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  • Bertrand Russell Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Samuel Johnson Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Peter F. Drucker So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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