"I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether."
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day."
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"It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent."
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"Old as I am in age, I have no feeling that I have ceased to grow inwardly or that my growth will stop at the dissolution of the flesh. What I am concerned with is my readiness to obey the call of Truth, my God, from moment to moment, no matter how inconsistent it may appear. My commitment is to Truth, not to consistency."
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"Consistency is the foundation of virtue."
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"No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy."
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"Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left."
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"You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time, you have to have courage."
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"Vegemite is pretty good if you've got the right spread of butter and you spread your Vegemite light. Sometimes people spread it too thick and it's not the right consistency for it to be what it is."
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"Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency."
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"Your desire for consistency itself will set you on the right path. As long as you keep going up, never mind if you come down once or twice."
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"The inducements of interest for observing [neutral] conduct . . . has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress without interruption, to that degree of strength and consistency, which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes."
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"The work really isn't about the specific content to me. As I'm putting things together, it's more about consistencies in form."
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"Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds."
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"A skeptic, I would ask for consistency first of all."
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"The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds."
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"I just do what I feel and what I like. I don't necessarily censor or feel an obligation to have a particular moral standard - I'm willing to wallow in the mud, if necessary. It appears as if there seems to be a consistency in result, but maybe that has as much to do with the roles I choose as it does with how I play them. I do what pleases me."
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"We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception."
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"True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse."
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"But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world."
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