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I always said life consists of love and work. I tried to balance it 50-50. And, of course, now I'm so happy I did. ↗

— John Forsythe

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason. ↗

— William Godwin

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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength. ↗

— Antonio Gramsci

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The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading. ↗

— Vernon Lee

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides. ↗

— Robert Quillen

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Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing. ↗

— Raymond Radiguet

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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing. ↗

— Ralph Richardson

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