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Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
Archibald Alexander

Men, Else, Morality

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
Claude Bernard

True, Worth, Seek

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

Good, Saying, Words

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
James Robinson

Believing, Finding, Reasoning

True greatness consists in being great in little things.
Charles Simmons

Great, True, Greatness

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
Konrad Adenauer

Politics, Art, Knowing

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
Talcott Parsons

Change, Knowledge, Fact

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
Frank Wedekind

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
Henry Fielding

Words, Same, Whether

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

True, Saying, Thoughts

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

Life, Love, Cannot

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
Kevin Kelly

Organism, Organisms

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

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.
Auberon Herbert

Career, Nation, Making

We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.
Evo Morales

Lie, Law, America

The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
Edward Thorndike

Number, Race, Evolution

The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.
Paul Getty

Wealth, Majority, Goods

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.
William Godwin

Living, Reason, Earth

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.
Seth Lloyd

Thought, Wishes, View

My daily beauty regimen consists of washing my face before bed and putting on moisturizer.
Rachel Bilson

Beauty, Daily, Before

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

Human, Wealth, Wants

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Thinking, Thought, Everybody

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
Herbert Samuel

Others, Virtue, Vices

I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.
Gail Porter

Success, Long, Fashion

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, Enjoyment

The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.
Henry Charles Carey

Freedom, Himself, Exercise

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.
Elihu Root

Peace, Nature, War

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.
Georg Simmel

Change, Results, Nervous

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.
Niklaus Wirth

Design, Old, Rather

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.
Niklaus Wirth

Steps, Program, Refinement

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