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The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

- Ashley Montagu

If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.

- Harold Pinter

In truth, they are compounding the problem. A person who breaks the law will answer to duly-constituted authorities for their criminal acts, and so-called vigilantes are no exception,

- Raúl González

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.

- Mark Thomas

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

- William Osler

My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government`s false claims.

- Kevin Mitnick

Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.

- Adm C. Turner Joy

The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual.

- Alan Feduccia

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

- Alan Grieve

Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.

- Allan Ross

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... Identity is performatively constituted by the very `expressions` that are said to be its results.

- Allen Beck

The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths.

- Alysia Waters

He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the conjunction and the natural dependence of the two parts of which we are constituted.

- Amir Attaran

Clinton`s fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.

- Amy Swiderski

To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.

- Andrew Forman

Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress`s decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.

- Andrew Patel

(When asked what constituted a) shark attack, ... We count `em all, if it involves a shark and a bite.

- Apollinaire Malu Malu