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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

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Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature. ↗

— Elihu Root

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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

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For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell. ↗

— Josiah Royce

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As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I try to tell to you wherein it consists, I helplessly describe only a type. ↗

— Josiah Royce

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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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