#consist

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. ↗

— James Stephens

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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. ↗

— Mark Twain

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To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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Happiness does not consist in self-love. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

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Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them. ↗

— Ron Chernow

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There are a lot of people in this business that don't work consistently. ↗

— Morris Chestnut

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