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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

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Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

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Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. ↗

— Epictetus

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