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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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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. ↗

— James A. Michener

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If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides. ↗

— Robert Quillen

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Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing. ↗

— Raymond Radiguet

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Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others. ↗

— Herbert Samuel

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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. ↗

— Lysander Spooner

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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into. ↗