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For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. ↗

— Albert Camus

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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. ↗

— Henry Fielding

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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

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On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

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