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Happiness consists in activity. It is a running steam, not a stagnant pool. ↗

— John Mason Good

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From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty. ↗

— Robert Trout

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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. ↗

— James Bryce

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

— Ralph Richardson

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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. ↗

— Edith Wharton

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But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished. ↗

— George Grey

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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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