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As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
Buddy Hackett

Family, Two, Child

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
Carl Jung

Down, Until, Progress

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.
Herman Hesse

Happiness, Feeling, Nothing

As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
Charles de Gaulle

Life, Through, Trials

In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.
Yakov Smirnoff

Two, Once, Turn

My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.
Ethel Merman

Career, Short, Around

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.
Mark Haddon

Work, Good, Writing

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.
William Lyon Phelps

Happiness, Freedom, Care

The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood.
Zebulon Pike

Good, Made, Blood

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.
Raymond Queneau

True, Story, Value

To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.
Herbert Croly

Life, America, American

Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.
Ray Davies

Country, Blues, Rhythm

They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned.
George Woodcock

Decision, Through, Understand

For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes.
Bob Beauprez

Work, Business, Cool

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.
Tracy Kidder

Learning, Writing, Done

Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was 20.
Curt Weldon

Special, Working, Able

Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice of life being passed off as an authentic portrait of the country.
Aravind Adiga

Life, Writing, Country

The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.
Noel Redding

Experience, Writing, Together

The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights.
Rene Cassin

Political, Through, Rights

The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms.
Walther Bothe

Time, Two, Four

The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.
John H. Speke

Work, Making, Rest

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
Brooks Atkinson

Age, Time, Good

The initial organisation, we called ourselves the Network Working Group, consisted of 6 to 10 people. We then quickly grew to 30 people and then to 50 people.
Steve Crocker

Working, Group, Ourselves

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.
Robert Cecil

Virtue, Avoiding, Disease

Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.
Sigrid Undset

Life, Father, Almost

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