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This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. ↗

— Anais Nin

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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

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A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. ↗

— Ogden Nash

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No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings. ↗

— Peter Drucker

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Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to. ↗

— Katharine Whitehorn

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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three. ↗

— Asa Gray

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Above these universal themes 'Truth Will Set U Free' is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it. ↗

— Corey Hart

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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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