#consists

The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

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Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members. ↗

— Peter Tork

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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. ↗

— Edith Wharton

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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished. ↗

— George Grey

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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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