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People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

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Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. ↗

— Alan Coren

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Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. ↗

— Frances Cornford

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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

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Business today consists in persuading crowds. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others. ↗

— Indira Gandhi

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Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin. ↗

— Antonio Gaudi

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

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All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

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