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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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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. ↗

— George Eliot

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The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free. ↗

— John Bruton

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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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Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago? ↗

— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

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Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. ↗

— John Fowles

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The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer. ↗

— Franz Halder

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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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