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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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The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading. ↗

— Vernon Lee

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme. ↗

— Stephane Mallarme

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According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

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

— Ralph Richardson

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Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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The true art of government consists in not governing too much. ↗

— Jonathan Shipley

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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches. ↗