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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of. ↗

— Fritz Zwicky

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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

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Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others. ↗

— Henry Drummond

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True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

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If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone, no longer necessarily consists of 17 member states. And that means to make provisions so that other countries are not pulled into the maelstrom through contagion. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

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