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• The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act.

  Carroll Quigley

  Men, Self, Today

  "Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time". Book by Carroll Quigley, p. 1278, 1966.

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• Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak.

  Edward Sapir

  Expression, Perfect, Would Be

  Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech ch. 2 (1921)

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• That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.

  James Alan Gardner

  Leadership, Stupid, Play

  James Alan Gardner (2017). “The League of Peoples Books 1–3: Expendable, Commitment Hour, and Vigilant”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• Childbearing is the most consistent of human events. Male and female alike, we have all been gestated inside a woman's body. As a phenomenon, childbearing is seemingly eternal and universal, yet like no other it highlights the gender divide, the singularity of individual experience and sociocultural diversities.

  Joan Raphael-Leff

  Diversity, Males, Events

  Joan Raphael-Leff (2000). “Spilt Milk: Perinatal Loss & Breakdown”, p.1951, Karnac Books

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• Each state pursues its own interest's, however defined, in ways it judges best. Force is a means of achieving the external ends of states because there exists no consistent, reliable process of reconciling the conflicts of interest that inevitably arise among similar units in a condition of anarchy.

  Kenneth Waltz

  Mean, Judging, Way

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.238, Columbia University Press

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• Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Rights, Society, Fundamentals

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.

  Horace

  Character, Lasts

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• Providence has fixed the limits of human enjoyment by immovable boundaries, and has set different gratifications at such a distance from each other, that no art or power can bring them together. This great law it is the business of every rational being to understand, that life may not pass away in an attempt to make contradictions consistent, to combine opposite qualities, and to unite things which the nature of their being must always keep asunder.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Distance, Law

  Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.148

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• The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the rest of the company, doth not put the person rallied out of countenance, or expose him to shame or contempt. On the contrary, the jest should be so delicate that the object of it should be capable of joining in the mirth it occasions.

  Henry Fielding

  Joining In, Laughing, Mirth

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1851). “The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume”, p.643

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• It is urged that the use of the masculine pronouns he, his, and him in all the constitutions and laws, is proof that only men were meant to be included in their provisions. If you insist on this version of the letter of the law, we shall insist that you be consistent and accept the other horn of the dilemma, which would compel you to exempt women from taxation for the support of the government and from penalties for the violation of laws. There is no she or her or hers in the tax laws, and this is equally true of all the criminal laws.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Law, Support

  Quoted in Ida Husted Harper, The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (1899) Apelles

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• As the networks evolve, so do my opinions toward them, and my divergent feelings bring out conflicting points of view. In advance, I apologize to those who expect a consistent position from me.

  Clifford Stoll

  Views, Feelings, Divergent

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• The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Animal, Class, Culture

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.79, Bantam

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• The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

  Erica Jong

  Men, Hypocrisy, Ems

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• Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

  Muriel Spark

  Character, Contradiction, Notes

  Muriel Spark (2014). “Loitering with Intent”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• Madness is consistent; which is more than can be said for poor reason. Whatever may be the ruling passion at the time continues equally so throughout the whole delirium, though it should last for life. Madmen are always constant in love; which no man in his senses ever was. Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy; but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

  Laurence Sterne

  Passion, Men, May

  Richard Griffith, Laurence Sterne (1794). “The Posthumous Works of Laurence Sterne: ...”

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• The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.

  Hannah Arendt

  Truth, Real, Lying

  "Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth & Morality: Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism", www.openculture.com. January 24, 2017.

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• Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Prayer, Desire

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.19, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Doe, World

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics”, p.72, Booklassic

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• The universal Law of Attraction states that we draw to us those people, events, and circumstances that match our inner state of being. In other words, we attract experiences that are consistent with our beliefs. If we believe that there is plenty of love in the world and we are worthy of giving and receiving that love, we will attract a different quality of relationships than someone who believes in scarcity or feels unworthy of happiness.

  Arielle Ford

  Believe, Law Of Attraction, People

  Arielle Ford (2009). “The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• You can do as many sprints as you want but there's nothing like playing in a 90-minute soccer game. There's no better way to gain your fitness, in my opinion, than playing in consistent games.

  Abby Wambach

  Soccer, Games, Want

  "Abby Wambach discusses her marriage, sport and future". Interview with Jeff Di Veronica, www.usatoday.com. March 30, 2014.

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• One thing that does seem to me to be fairly consistent is that presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it. So most people agree that one of the worst stains on the reputation of FDR, who is widely considered a great president, is the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Likewise, Lincoln is judged harshly for the suspension of habeas corpus.

  David Greenberg

  War, People, President

  "Making Presidential History". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.slate.com. August 9, 2007.

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• There has to be consistent emergence of two or three films - narratively, stylistically, consistently demonstrating you are here to go on. And on that kind of basis, I'm not seeing much. I'm just waiting to see.

  Haile Gerima

  Two, Waiting, Three

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The one thing I always talk about in terms of restaurants is consistency. I think that's what we love about the vodka, is that it's consistent. It's consistent in its pureness and that's how I tie it to restaurants. When I think of a good restaurant, it's where the food has been consistent; there's always a consistency.

  Robert De Niro

  Thinking, Ties, Consistency

  Source: www.thenewpotato.com

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• He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble about his words and actions; it is like traveling in a plain road, which is sure to bring you to your journey's end better than byways in which many lose themselves.

  John Tillotson

  Journey, Tasks, World

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• Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

  John Tillotson

  Truth, Lying, Men

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