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

— Edward Gibbon

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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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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. ↗

— Mark Twain

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

— Henry Drummond

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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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Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

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Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. ↗

— James Robinson

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