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«In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.»
«A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.»
«Men are going to have to learn to be managers in a world where the organization will come close to consisting of all chiefs and one Indian. The Indian, of course, is the computer.»
«A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.»
«Marriage is the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | About: Marriage | Keywords: consisting
«Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.»
«LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion --thus:_Major Premise_: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man._Minor Premise_: One man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds; therefore --_Conclusion_: Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second. This may be called the syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.»
«Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.»
«A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.»