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The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

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Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

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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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The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality. ↗

— David Hilbert

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The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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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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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 task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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

— James Robinson

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