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• There are no inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Past, Discworld

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• My fascination with images open 24 hrs. is based on the complex interlocking if disparate facts heated pool that have no respect for grammar. The form then Denver 39 is second hand to nothing. The work then has a chance to electric service become its own cliché. Luggage. This is the inevitable fate fair ground of any inanimate object freightways by this I mean anything that does not have inconsistency as a possibility built in.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Mean, Fate, Hands

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• The Consequentialist trinity is typically regarded in this way: Bentham is crude, Mill's writings are full of howlers and inconsistencies, and Sidgwick was too smart to fully embrace Consequentialism. All of these great traditions in moral philosophy express strands of our moral consciousness and they should all be treated as research programs rather than as fully determinate views that can be leveled by a counterexample or by a clever argument.

  Dale Jamieson

  Clever, Philosophy, Smart

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

  Margaret Atwood

  Water, Stories, Odyssey

  Margaret Atwood (2003). “The Penelopiad”, p.21, Canongate Books

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• There are inconsistencies in Donald Trump's ideology.

  David Remnick

  Trump, Ideology

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• But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Perfect, Catholic

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• Reports by Politico, Bloomberg and other news outlets have raised inconsistencies in Melania Trump's immigration story.

  Audie Cornish

  Immigration, News, Stories

  "Inconsistencies Call Melania Trump's Immigration Story Into Question". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. August 5, 2016.

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• Sometimes you've got to draw a line between having all the options and being a slave to the things, using them every time you play the guitar. I'm trying to keep a real inconsistency to the pedals so that it is something new every time.

  Joshua Homme

  Real, Guitar, Play

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• Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself.

  Mark Twight

  Lying, Cutting, Incompetence

  Mark Twight (2001). “Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”

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• The nations, and the sects, of the Roman world, admitted with equal credulity, and similar abhorrence, the reality of that infernal art [witchcraft], which was able to control the eternal order of the planets, and the voluntary operations of the human mind. . . . They believed, with the wildest inconsistency, that this preternatural dominion of the air, of earth, and of hell, was exercised, from the vilest motives of malice or gain, by some wrinkled hags and itinerant sorcerers, who passed their obscure lives in penury and contempt.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Reality, Air

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.253

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• Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Men, Promise, Vow

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1738). “Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections”, p.111

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• Take a very striking case in point: the Russian Bolsheviks. [Vladimir] Lenin created an alleged workers' party, which in every way reflected the Czarist machine, in order to deal with Czarism. And the danger and the hazards of trying to accommodate libertarian principles to the political process as we know it today is that one begins to dissolve the libertarian principles. So I would say that there is an inconsistency there that should be explored.

  Murray Bookchin

  Party, Order, Political

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• The imaginary expression √(-a) and the negative expression -b, have this resemblance, that either of them occurring as the solution of a problem indicates some inconsistency or absurdity. As far as real meaning is concerned, both are imaginary, since 0 - a is as inconceivable as √(-a).

  Augustus De Morgan

  Real, Expression, Negative

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• The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity or hypocrisy can be fairly laid to their charge. Never from their lips was heard one syllable of attempt to justify the institution of slavery. They universally considered it as a reproach fastened upon them by the unnatural step-mother country and they saw that before the principles of the Declaration of Independence slavery, in common with every other mode of oppression, was destined sooner or later to be banished from the earth.

  John Quincy Adams

  Country, Mother, Hypocrisy

  "An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport". Book by John Quincy Adams (p.50), 1837.

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• If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.

  Jonathan Swift

  Love, Learning, Men

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.895, Delphi Classics

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• Keith Gillespie just lacks a little bit of inconsistency.

  Graeme Le Saux

  Football, Keith, Littles

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• Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

  Thomas Hardy

  Practice, Principles, Constitution

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1305, Delphi Classics

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• I think nobody since has written such extraordinary work as Shakespeare writes. The characters he writes are full of inconsistencies, which is a great human quality - I mean we're all very inconsistent in the way we behave.

  Jeremy Irons

  Writing, Character, Mean

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to doubt the truth of the Christian religion; and well they may, for it is too fanciful and too full of conjecture, inconsistency, improbability and irrationality, to afford consolation to the thoughtful man. His reason revolts against his creed. He sees that none of its articles are proved, or can be proved.

  Thomas Paine

  Christian, Men, Thinking

  Thomas Paine (1854). “The Works of Thomas Paine: A Hero in the American Revolution. With an Account of His Life ...”, p.260

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• In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

  L. Sprague de Camp

  Writing, Character, Story Writers

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• A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly felt at the time, may be transitory. A letter captures the mood of the moment. The transitory becomes immutably fixed, part of the evidence for the prosecution or the defence.

  P. D. James

  Prejudice, Letters, May

  P. D. James (2007). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.85, Vintage

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• My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category. Thus, I follow the literature on programming languages and the debates about programming languages primarily looking for ideas for solutions to problems my colleagues and I have encountered in real applications. Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Real, Fall, Inspiration

  Bjarne Stroustrup (1994). “The Design and Evolution of C++”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• I'm as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies.

  Myles Horton

  Consistency, Proud

  Myles Horton, Paulo Freire, Brenda Bell, John Gaventa (1990). “We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change”, p.10, Temple University Press

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• The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was, viz., that of inconsistency. But Jesus Christ was always consistent to God, and the Christian must be consistent to the life of the Son of God in him, not consistent to hard and fast creeds. Men pour themselves into creeds, and God has to blast them out of their prejudices before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Jesus, Son

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.378, Discovery House

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• By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Beginners, Way

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo, William Scott Wilson (2002). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.37, Kodansha International

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