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Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. ↗

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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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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. ↗

— Lin Yutang

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The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords. ↗

— James J. Gibson

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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. ↗

— Voltaire

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The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ↗