Constitutes Quotes
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The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.
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Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:"The question is much too difficult for me".
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The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.
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The fact that any person or institution, however well respected, praises or adopts something never constitutes proof of anything. It might merely illustrate that even well-educated people or powerful institutions can sometimes commit the silliest and most obvious of mistakes.
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I think what constitutes rock nowadays is people that actually play and sing. They can do the job live with no ProTools or embellishments or other recorded material.
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What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?
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Retention of operational control of its air is important to the Corps' air-ground team, as air constitutes a significant part of its offensive firepower.
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With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.
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Michael Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction is a very narrow idea that, world-historically, evolved over the last sixty or seventy years or so - that until the rise of that kind of third-person-limited, middle-aged-white-guy-experiencing-enlightenment story as in some way the epitome of literary fiction - before that all kinds of crazy things that we would now define as belonging to genre were part of the literary canon.
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Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works, objects whose very disproportion constitutes an element of beauty.
