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Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
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The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
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The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
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The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.
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The distinction between Christianity and all other systems of religion consists largely in this, that in these other men are found seeking after God, while Christianity is God seeking after man.
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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
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The future always comes as a surprise, but political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial judgment of what that surprise may be. And for my part I cannot but believe that a main unexpected thing of the future is the return of Islam.
The Great Heresies (1938) H. III -
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
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The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
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The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable.
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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
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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.
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The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
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The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929) -
The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do.
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