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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. ↗

— Lysander Spooner

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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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Happiness consists in activity. It is a running steam, not a stagnant pool. ↗

— John Mason Good

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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases. ↗

— Andre Malraux

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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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