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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love. ↗

— Robert Frank

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The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer. ↗

— Franz Halder

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The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality. ↗

— David Hilbert

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Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

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Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. ↗

— John Updike

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

— Thomas Mann

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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