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I have a lot of hope for the Constituent Assembly. -- Evo Morales
Individual tribes or, in other words, races or stocks, are the constituent elements of the earliest history. -- Theodor Mommsen
There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states. -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its evolution. -- Annie Besant
People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent. -- Bob Black
Technologically, the Internet works thanks to loose but trusted connections among its many constituent parts, with easy entry and exit for new ISPs or new forms of expanding access. -- Jonathan Zittrain
The Internet works thanks to loose but trusted connections among its many constituent parts, with easy entry and exit for new Internet service providers or new forms of expanding access. -- Jonathan Zittrain
Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved. -- Giacomo Casanova
For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture. -- William Irwin Thompson
The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image. -- Gabriel Lippmann
If you remember you just have one constituent, and that's God himself, and if you try to please him I think you usually come with a lot steadier pace and a lot more peace in your life. -- Jim DeMint
Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there's a danger: a constituent who actually wants something done. Or worse, a campaign donor who might be offended by that something. -- Bill McKibben
The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all. -- Charles Hodge
Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal. -- Gilbert Newton Lewis
The idea that in the system, if you manage it in an optimum way, all of the constituent parts of the system also win, flourish, and benefit, is intrinsic to business and even to capitalism itself, properly understood. But people don't understand it because we're not taught to think that way. -- John Mackey
Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip. -- Adam Savage
What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller government and lower taxes. Obama and the Democrats do not. We are a party that wants to encourage small business. We are a party that has a large constituent group that believes in a social agenda and we will not abandon them. -- Ed Rollins
I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole. -- Adam Savage
Hope is an essential constituent of human life. -- Benjamin Franklin
Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty... -- Winston Churchill
I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold. -- John Paul Stevens
Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups. -- Clay Shirky
There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts. -- Charles Handy
The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole. -- Arnold J. Toynbee
Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness. -- Erich Fromm
The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education. -- John Dewey
The state has an active role to play in ensuring that there is equilibrium between the constituent parts of the economy, the consumers and the producers. -- Pierre Trudeau
Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition. -- Carl Sagan
Members of Congress care about reelection most of all. And that means they care about their constituents. So you have to be a constituent to make your voice heard. -- Ezra G. Levin
By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those crops to the life of which that one constituent is indispensable. -- Justus von Liebig
Having been in Congress, you know that's part of our responsibility the constituent has a problem, We're supposed to write back and say, 'Well I can't do anything' That's not what they elect you for. -- Bob Dole
In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can exist without the latter, but the latter cannot exist without them. -- Joseph Story

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