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Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

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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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The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. ↗

— Konrad Adenauer

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The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

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The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free. ↗

— John Bruton

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Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

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Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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