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Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second are determined modes of action.
The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.
Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.
Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris du coeur over this, that, and the other.
Your life has to consist of more than 'Black people should unite.' You hope they do, but not twenty-four hours a day.
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion.
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
Happiness does not consist in self-love.
A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
I'm more of like a recreational surfer, not a consist surfer. Some people get out every week or every day.
Religion does not consist in making a noise, yet when the soul is filled with the Spirit of the Lord, sweet, heart-felt praise to God glorifies him.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
My sole recreations consist in dancing English hornpipes and cutting capers. Italy is a land of sleep; I am always drowsy here.
What we mean by an outcome will naturally depend on the context. Thus, for a government charged with delivering public goods, an outcome will consist of the quantities provided of such goods as intercity highways, national defense and security, environmental protection, and public education together with the arrangements by which they are financed.
There will be some tracks on the next album which that will consist of mostly noise and feedback, whereas others may just have guitar parts and samples.
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.