#consist

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. ↗

— John Adams

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The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. ↗

— Konrad Adenauer

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My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be. ↗

— Naima Adedapo

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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

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Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar. ↗

— William E. Geist

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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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The only way to be completely self-consistent is to be constantly uttering paradoxes. ↗

— Bauvard

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