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Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. ↗

— Adam Smith

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We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination. ↗

— Olympia Snowe

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Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always. ↗

— Sophocles

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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ↗

— Helen Keller

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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. ↗

— Karel Capek

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I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. ↗

— George Will

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Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil. ↗

— David Wilmot

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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. ↗