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The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life. ↗

— G. Stanley Hall

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Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner. ↗

— Howard Staunton

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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

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The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. ↗

— Jean Genet

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It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. ↗

— William Osler

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Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other. ↗

— Albert Pike

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