#constitute

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. ↗

— David Bohm

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The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities. ↗

— Judith Butler

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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#beliefs #call #constitute #embodied #i

A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy. ↗

— Abdoulaye Wade

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#intellect #minus #vulgarity #will

Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#control #difficult #ideas #lives #make

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great. ↗

— Charles Sturt

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