#constitutes

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

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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

#antipathy #both #constitutes #each #friendship

Transcendence constitutes selfhood. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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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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I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, it's perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there. ↗

— David Miliband

#always #anything #clash #clear #closed

A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence". ↗

— Alva Myrdal

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