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• But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Quality, Firmament

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 59

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• One man's constant is another man's variable.

  Alan Perlis

  Men, Variables, Programmers

  Alan J. Perlis (1975). “Introduction to computer science”

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• The constant attention is what is so difficult.

  Natalie Wood

  Attention, Difficult

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• Constant repetition carries conviction.

  Robert Collier

  Positive, Mma, Affirmation

  Robert Collier (2010). “The Life Magnet”, p.265, Penguin

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• Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Talking, Dying

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• Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

  Thomas Otway

  Time, Men, Clock

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• For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.

  Ana Castillo

  Men, Roles, World

  Ana Castillo (1995). “Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma”, Plume Books

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• Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Long, World

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.324

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• I have a constant sweet tooth, so I like anything from the bakery, like cupcakes, cookies.

  Carmen Electra

  Sweet, Cupcakes, Teeth

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• As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Country, War, Loss

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

  Ralph Ellison

  Writing, Past, Shadow

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “Shadow and Act”, p.19, Vintage

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• Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

  Allan Sloan

  Gold, Mediocrity, Columns

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• I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Book, Reading, Names

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• One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

  Christine Keeler

  Father, Reading, Way

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• My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion.

  Harry Houdini

  Records, Disillusion, Profession

  Harry Houdini (2007). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: A Complete ExposT”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

  Joseph Addison

  Lying, Mind, Culture

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1767). “The Spectator”, p.43

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• Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Pain, Real, Suffering

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

  Adolf Hitler

  Aquariums, Evil, Essentials

  Adolf Hitler, Ludwig Lore (1939). “Mein Kampf”, New York : Stackpole

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• I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Demand, Personal And Professional Life, Personal Life

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Change, Success, Philosophical

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• A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Struggle, Achievement

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will”, p.24, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

  Andre Maurois

  Freedom, Learning, Simple

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• Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

  Toni Morrison

  Fear, Boys, Black

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• A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Firsts, Modern, Ends

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• Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

  Roger Staubach

  Motivational, Soccer, Confidence

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