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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.
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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
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Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
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Consistency is the foundation of virtue.
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
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Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.
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If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.
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Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.
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Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.
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Part of courage is simple consistency.
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People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
In Defence Of Politics Ch. 7, In Praise Of Politics, p. 143 -
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
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What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.
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