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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be. ↗

— Allan Houston

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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications. ↗

— Mary Douglas

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Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. ↗

— Epictetus

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Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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