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The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

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Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face. ↗

— Jim Evans

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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way. ↗

— Aaron Allston

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Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

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Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. ↗

— Maya Angelou

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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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