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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. ↗

— Henry Adams

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Reality simply consists of different points of view. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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

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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ↗

— Robert Frost

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The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it. ↗

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

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