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Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty. ↗

— Robert Trout

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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. ↗

— James Bryce

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Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. ↗

— F. M. Cornford

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It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other. ↗

— Delia Ephron

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I always said life consists of love and work. I tried to balance it 50-50. And, of course, now I'm so happy I did. ↗

— John Forsythe

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

— Ralph Richardson

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The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence. ↗

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

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