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Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it. ↗

— Huston Smith

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I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap. ↗

— Sting

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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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Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own. ↗

— Terence

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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

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Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate. ↗

— Olympia Brown

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To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. ↗

— Lee De Forest

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