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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
George Eliot
Soul
Consists
Unbelief
Accepting
Denying
Them
Belief
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
People
Wealth
Possess
Consists
Abolish
Totally
Town
Principal
Concerned
Trade
Years
Chief
Being
Little
Many
Therefore
Slave
Chance
Number
Slaves
The constellation of opinion called the blogosphere consists, like the stars themselves, partly of gases. This is what makes blogs addictive - that is, both pleasurable and destructive: They're so easy to consume and so endlessly available.
George Packer
Stars
Addictive
Pleasurable
Consists
Destructive
Easy
Both
Consume
Like
Partly
Makes
Opinion
Blogs
Endlessly
Available
Themselves
Gases
Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.
Greg Egan
Starts
Software
Our
Consists
Thousand
Thousand Years
Inside
About
Civilisation
Computers
Major
Most
Years
Branch
Human
Essentially
Moved
Descendants
Now
Conscious
The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.
Gustav Heinemann
Reality
Better
Big
Secret
Additional
Consists
Entails
Direction
Insofar
Step
Simultaneously
Steps
Also
Discovering
Revolutionary
Tiny
The Secret Of
Strategic
Actions
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
Gustav Mahler
Music
Art
Consists
Real
Conducting
Transitions
The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Language
Living
Consists
Follows
More
Thus
Operation
Said
Real
Being
Less
Aware
He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.
Hector Hugh Munro
Life
Invent
Christianity
Pulpit
Consists
Though
Has-Been
Fact
He
True
Glory
Been
His
Explaining
Found
Necessary
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
Heinrich Heine
Saying
Nothing
Eloquence
Consists
True
Necessary
But what sets Europe apart is we insist on a social model that consists of solidarity, equal opportunity and a certain amount of redistribution.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Opportunity
Insist
Sets
Consists
Solidarity
Equal
Equal Opportunity
Redistribution
Model
Apart
Social
Certain
Europe
Amount
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
Herbert Hoover
Wisdom
Consists
Knowing
Ultimate
Much
Next
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
Huston Smith
Art
Religion
Somewhere
Every
Society
Rules
Consists
Drawing
Moral
Morality
Laws
Both
Line
Essence
We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
Irvin D. Yalom
Work
Dreams
You
People
World
Own
Other
Relationships
Our
Our Dreams
Consists
Examine
Students
Importance
How
Pathology
Them
Your
Teaching
Your Dreams
Conscience
Inner
Inner World
The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices.
Ivan Pavlov
Digestive
Consists
Penetrating
Various
Devices
Becomes
Chemical
Equipped
Canal
Succeeds
Convinced
Who
Mechanical
Deeper
Number
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
James A. Michener
Character
You
Consists
Tries
Fourth
Third
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
James Harvey Robinson
Argument
Our
Consists
Finding
Most
Going
So-Called
Reasoning
Believing
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
Jean Cocteau
Consists
Seeing
Habit
Prevents
True
Revealing
Covered
Surprising
Which
Realism
Us
Keeps
Things
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
Jean de la Bruyere
Great
Great Deal
Giving
Liberality
Consists
Gifts
Deal
Well-Timed
Than
Less
I eat steak primarily. That's pretty much what my diet consists of. Sometimes I supplement that with other steaks.
Jocko Willink
Sometimes
Other
Consists
Eat
Pretty
Steak
Supplement
Primarily
Diet
Much
Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.
Johannes Tauler
Saying
Prayer
Thoughts
You
Believe
Reciting
Consists
Beads
Allow
Never
Mere
True
Roam
Psalms
While
Your
Many
Babbling
The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.
John Bruton
People
Will
Free
Consists
Secure
Only
Abstraction
Feel
Economy
Reasonably
Grow
The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.
John Wesley Powell
Organization
Language
Consists
Parts
Integration
Linguistic
Sentence
Sentences
Then
Organs
Differentiation
Speech
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
Joseph Butler
Happiness
Nature
Suited
Our
Several
Those
Consists
Objects
Only
Particular
Passions
Affections
Which
Satisfaction
Appetites
Enjoyment
The perfection of style consists in the use of the exact speech necessary to convey the sense in the fewest words consistent with perspicuity, at the same time having regard to appropriateness and harmony of expression. Its greater excellencies are directness, accuracy, appropriateness and perspicuity.
Joseph P. Bradley
Time
Words
Style
Sense
Harmony
Consistent
Consists
Exact
Having
Perfection
Greater
Accuracy
Same
Fewest
Same Time
Regard
Convey
Use
Expression
Necessary
Speech
I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.
Karl Rove
Become
Consists
Adjective
Prominent
Something
Throwing
Columnist
Mainly
Until
Insult
Sticks
Said
Textbook
Campaigning
Goes
Anything
Race
Mud
Meant
Elements
I'm trying to be one of the greatest players, so whatever level that consists of is where I want to take my game.
Kawhi Leonard
Game
Whatever
Consists
Take
Greatest
Trying
Where
Want
Level
Players
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