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The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

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Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. ↗

— John Updike

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I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of. ↗

— Fritz Zwicky

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The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count. ↗

— George Mikes

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Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others. ↗

— Henry Drummond

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True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

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The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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