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• Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point.

  Aldrich Ames

  Mean, Anxiety, Important

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• Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

  Horace

  Character, Ends, Consistent

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• My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.

  Lee Krasner

  Depression, Depressing, Painful

  Robert Carleton Hobbs, Lee Krasner (1999). “Lee Krasner”, Harry N. Abrams

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• It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent.

  Saul Bellow

  World, Consistent

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• Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency, especially when it regards religion or party. In either of these cases, though a man perhaps does but his duty in changing his side, he not only makes himself hated by those he left, but is seldom heartily esteemed by those he comes over to.

  Joseph Addison

  Real, Party, Eye

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.30

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• It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. God alone knows absolute truth. Therefore, I have often said, Truth is God. It follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Lying, Mean

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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.

  Maya Angelou

  Have Courage, Merciful, Fairs

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• All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Character, Order, Causes

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  Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

  Michael Faraday

  Nature, Truth, Science

  Michael Faraday (2003). “Experimental Researches In Chemistry And Physics”, p.9, CRC Press

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• With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Adventure, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.25, Coyote Canyon Press

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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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Thinking, Soul

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Opinion, Wells, Inconstancy

  "Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to Atticus)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book XVI, Chapter 7), 68-43 BC.

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• Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.

  Aldous Huxley

  Wisdom, Mind, Body

  'Do What You Will' (1929) 'Wordsworth in the Tropics'

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• There must be consistency in direction.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Management

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• Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Maintenance, Tradition, Conventions

  Thorstein Veblen (2016). “BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Premium Collection: 25+ Titles in One Volume: The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, On the Nature of Capital…: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Beginning of Ownership, The Preconceptions of Economic Science, The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry, The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx…”, p.396, e-artnow

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• Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  George Bernard Shaw (1988). “Collected letters: 1926-1950”, Vintage

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• ...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Spirit, Revelations

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• Consistency is a jewel, but too much jewelry is vulgar.

  Evan Esar

  Jewels, Too Much, Jewelry

  Evan Esar (1978). “The Comic Encyclopedia: A Library of the Literature and History of Humor Containing Thousands of Gags, Sayings, and Stories”, Doubleday Books

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• People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Integrity, Failure, People

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• I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Rights, Average

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.407, Courier Corporation

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• I have worked hard to improve my consistency in my driving, irons, short game, and putting.

  Natalie Gulbis

  Games, Iron, Driving

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• Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

  Joseph Joubert

  Feelings, Opinion, Fixed

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• We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

  Alan Turing

  Brain, Facts, Cold

  Alan Mathison Turing, B. J. Copeland (2004). “The Essential Turing”, p.477, Oxford University Press

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• My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing. But I don't have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has.

  William Hung

  Silly, Skills, Dancing

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• We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Government, Quality, Literature

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