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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
Social
,
Europe
,
Equal
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
Cool
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Book
,
Whatever
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
Robert Quillen
Mind
,
Give
,
Attention
According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.
Ernst Mayr
Another
,
Existence
,
Evolution
As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.
Ernst Mayr
Change
,
Two
,
Fact
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
Computers
,
Human
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Inside
Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
Money
,
Government
,
Tax
The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
Jacques Maritain
Great
,
Strength
,
America
I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.
Fritz Zwicky
Time
,
Brain
,
Universe
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
Real
,
Living
,
Said
The core of my personality consists of many selves.
Hans Bender
Core
,
Selves
The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.
Stephane Mallarme
Idea
,
Act
,
Number
The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.
Georg Baselitz
Work
,
Attitude
,
Social
This consists of a series of meetings that may last several days through which information is provided that may include reviewing documentaries, news programs, court records and certain reports about the group in question.
Rick Ross
May
,
Through
,
Last
I always said life consists of love and work. I tried to balance it 50-50. And, of course, now I'm so happy I did.
John Forsythe
Life
,
Love
,
Work
The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Religion
,
Feeling
,
Essence
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.
Francis W. Newman
Powerful
,
Others
,
Short
The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer.
Franz Halder
Enemy
,
Dead
,
Order
It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.
Delia Ephron
Stand
,
Blood
,
Related
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.
Robert Millikan
Human
,
Wants
,
Refinement
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Knowing
,
Difference
,
Wit
Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
Thought
,
Creativity
,
Often
Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.
Thomas Couture
Knowing
,
Colors
,
Paint
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
Orlando Gibbons
Music
,
Everything
,
Whole
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
Vernon Lee
Greatest
,
Reading
,
Pleasure
Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.
Raymond Radiguet
Trying
,
Else
,
Everybody
A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.
Joyce Carey
Novel
,
Exceptions
,
Points
The true art of government consists in not governing too much.
Jonathan Shipley
Art
,
Government
,
True
Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.
Frances Cornford
Art
,
Friends
,
Quite
The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
Adolf Hitler
Leadership
,
Art
,
Care
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