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Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. ↗

— Josh Billings

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Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant. ↗

— Alan Dundes

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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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My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength. ↗

— Antonio Gramsci

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If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides. ↗

— Robert Quillen

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