Inconsistent Quotes - Page 2

• Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Block, Causes, Christ

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 38”, p.175, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so. God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities. Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve.

  Pope Francis

  Running, Theory Of Evolution, Risk

  "Pope Francis: 'Evolution ... is not inconsistent with the notion of creation'". www.ncronline.org. October 27, 2014.

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• Everybody have equal rights to a life of full flourishing. Philosophy slowly, slowly has given us arguments saying, look, you already committed to your own life flourishing, and you're being inconsistent if you don't expand it. So philosophy often works in trying to show us that there's an inner incoherence in our points of view. We're all committed to one thing when it comes to us and our own kind, but we're not willing to expand it and we're guilty of inconsistency.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Philosophy, Rights, Views

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• I believed then, and continue to believe now, that the benefits to our security and freedom of widely available cryptography far, far outweigh the inevitable damage that comes from its use by criminals and terrorists. I believed, and continue to believe, that the arguments against widely available cryptography, while certainly advanced by people of good will, did not hold up against the cold light of reason and were inconsistent with the most basic American values.

  Matt Blaze

  Believe, Light, Security And Freedom

  "Congress Mulls Stiff Crypto Laws" by Declan Mccullagh, www.wired.com. September 13, 2001.

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• The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent with our increasing interdependent world. On moral grounds alone there can be no justification for the 20th century level of killing. To settle disputes without violence must become the primary goal of foreign policy for every nation.

  Robert McNamara

  Past, Goal, Balance

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• Star Trek, I thought, was a very inconsistent show, which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction approaches, and other times was more carnival-like, and very much more the creature of television than the creature of a legitimate literary form.

  Rod Serling

  Stars, Fiction, Television

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• He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Order, Anxiety, Honor

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• Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face.

  Jim Evans

  Player, Umpires, Two

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• To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.

  Adam Smith

  Liberty, Would Be, Examination

  Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart (1843). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.405

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• REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Faith, Punishment, Followers

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.181, 谷月社

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• Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.

  Larry Wall

  Essence, Sanity, Consistently

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• The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.

  Larry Wall

  Way, Problem, Consistent

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• More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

  Dick Morris

  Politics, Misguided, Democrat

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• The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Play, Imagination

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.88, Routledge

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• One might point to the great illumination that has resulted from Freud's analysis of the abracadabra of our dreams. No one can any longer dismiss the fantasy because it is logically inconsistent, superficially absurd, or objectively untrue.

  Walter Lippmann

  Dream, Illumination, Might

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Desire, Criminals, Ignoble

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• One day of good preaching is no match for six days of inconsistent practice. God will never honor His church with complete success until it completely honors Him.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Practice, Honor, Church

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 145, 1895.

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• Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts.

  Thomas Gainsborough

  Real, Character, Gentleman

  Letter to William Jackson of Exeter; as cited in "The Letters of Thomas Gainsborough", ed. Mary Woodall, 1961, September 14, 1767.

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• A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.

  Ian Hacking

  Observation, Generalization, Falsehood

  Ian Hacking (2006). “The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference”, p.34, Cambridge University Press

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• The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil fuels is inconsistent with a healthy, prosperous future for our civilization.

  Al Gore

  Civilization, Prosperous Future, Healthy

  "Climate change report: 'The worst is yet to come' - as it happened" by Helen Davidson, Adam Vaughan, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2014.

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• I say to the grown-ups, 'If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we've observed in the universe that's fine. But don't make your kids do it.'

  Bill Nye

  Kids, World, Want

  "'Bill Nye the Science Guy' to Debate Evolution at Kentucky's Creation Museum" by Alyssa Newcomb, abcnews.go.com. January 3, 2014.

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• advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.

  Mary Frances Berry

  Mother, Children, Opportunity

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• I have gone from a Barry Goldwater Republican to a New Democrat, but I think my underlying values have remained pretty constant; individual responsibility and community. I do not see those as being mutually inconsistent.

  Hillary Clinton

  Responsibility, Thinking, Community

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• I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.

  Brennan Manning

  Prayer, Love You, Past

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• I took great pride in my performance on and off the field, and often questioned why our culture embraces alcohol while simultaneously stigmatizing those who choose to consume a less harmful alternative, marijuana…it is inconsistent, both legally and socially, for our laws to punish adults who make the ‘safer’ choice.

  Mark Stepnoski

  Pride, Marijuana, Law

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