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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Alexander Pope
Every
Consists
Easy
About
Self
True
Politeness
Making
Being
Health consists with temperance alone.
Alexander Pope
Alone
Health
Consists
Temperance
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Alfred North Whitehead
Philosophical
Consists
Characterization
General
Safest
Tradition
European
Series
Plato
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
Andre Malraux
War
Win
Revolution
Fighting
Pleases
Ways
Consists
Neither
Only
Doing
Nor
Fifty
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Anna Quindlen
People
Building
Design
Think
Enough
Consists
Kind
Would
Would-Be
Most
Mostly
Content
Up
Children
Grew
Decorating
Who
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Aristotle
Wisdom
Justice
Virtue
Consists
Moderation
The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.
Duke of Wellington
War
Art
Other
Side
Guessing
Consists
Hill
Art Of War
Whole
Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.
Francois Fenelon
Saying
Good
Thoughts
Communication
Words
Good Taste
Few
Our
Say
Consists
Composure
Having
Genuine
Arrangement
Taste
Order
Much
Speaking
Choosing
Among
The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Religion
Feeling
Consists
Absolute
Essence
Dependence
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
John Fowles
Pretending
Duty
Consists
Critical
Trivial
Largely
The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection.
John Marshall
Government
Liberty
Protection
First
Every
Claim
Consists
Civil
Civil Liberty
Laws
Individual
He
Very
Afford
Essence
Duties
Whenever
Certainly
Injury
Right
Receives
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
John Updike
Life
Home
You
Somewhere
Hell
Consists
Driving
Most
Returning
American
Wondering
American Life
Then
Why
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
Life
Future
Live
Consists
Direction
Individual
Individual Life
Toward
Operation
Because
Making
Doing
Inexorably
Itself
Done
Which
Forward
Each
Each Individual
Lives
As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I try to tell to you wherein it consists, I helplessly describe only a type.
Josiah Royce
You
Try
Believe
Type
Consists
Tell
Only
Friend
Whenever
Wherein
Your
Describe
Uniqueness
Beloved
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
Lewis H. Lapham
Leadership
Character
Follower
Leader
Alike
Consists
Moral
Athletic
Degrees
Rather
Both
Self-Restraint
Intellectual
Than
Effort
Burdens
Traits
Requires
Technique
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
Life
Wisdom
Art
Undone
Consists
Besides
Noble
Leaving
Done
Getting
Things
Elimination
All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.
Steven Brust
Book
Will
Degree
Whatever
Consists
About
Writer
He
Like
Reader
Literature
Cool
Agree
Thinks
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
Man
Blessing
Mind
Visible
Consists
Unseen
Outward
Felicity
Inward
Riches
Fortune
The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.
Walter Ulbricht
Nature
Democracy
People
Problems
Degree
Important
Mistakes
Consists
Criticize
Right
I grew up in this industry. I'm a third generation actor, and I believe strongly that life and career are two different things. Career is inside my life. I'm also a photographer, a pianist, and lots of different things, so my life consists of so many different elements that there are moments when I have to step away and be me.
Alaina Huffman
Life
Me
Generation
My Life
Believe
Consists
Photographer
Inside
Strongly
Pianist
Step
Also
Industry
Lots
Up
Different
Grew
Different Elements
Many
Moments
Different Things
Elements
Actor
Away
Things
Career
Two
Third
Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.
Alan Dundes
Family
Interviewing
Project
Consists
Members
Collection
Folklore
Term
Friends
Manage
Family Members
Anyone
Fieldwork
Create
Persuade
Serve
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
Wealth
Reckoned
Consists
Directly
Indirectly
Human
Wants
Which
Satisfy
Things
Desirable
Hipster Sexism consists of the objectification of women but in a manner that uses mockery, quotation marks, and paradox: the stuff you learned about in literature class. As funny as Dunham's 'Girls' is, it can definitely border on Hipster Sexism.
Alissa Quart
Funny
You
Class
Women
Girl
Marks
Consists
Definitely
Paradox
Border
Sexism
Objectification
About
Stuff
Learned
Mockery
Quotation
Literature
Manner
Uses
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
Alphonse Karr
People
Think
Others
Virtue
Severity
Consists
Towards
Many
I have almost never written about my experience as a soldier on the battlefield, because I tried, and I found that it is beyond my capacity to describe the battlefield. The battlefield consists mostly of smells, and it is very difficult to describe smells in words - very difficult indeed.
Amos Oz
Experience
Words
Difficult
Soldier
Indeed
Consists
Battlefield
Tried
About
Never
Written
Almost
Beyond
Smells
Mostly
Because
Very
Capacity
Describe
Found
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.
Amy Bloom
Writing
Consists
Writing Process
Lot
Process
Avoiding
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