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• The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.

  William Sanderson

  Sports, Jobs, Hobbies

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• If you’re controlled by your circumstances, life is going to be a roller coaster with ups and downs. God wants you to be stable, consistent, not moved by any of these things. When you face an adversity, when you hit a tough time, one of the best things you can do is simply stay calm. Keep your peace.

  Joel Osteen

  Adversity, Tough Times, Stay Calm

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• We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.

  Martin Van Buren

  Country, Rights, Effort

  Martin Van Buren (1969). “Martin Van Buren, 1782-1862: chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”

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• It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Simple, Facts

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.8, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• May every young scientist remember and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.

  Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett

  Failure, Eye, Science

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• I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.

  Alan Keyes

  Abortion, Principles, Care

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• As a captain, I think it's important that the players really know who you are and what you stand for, what your beliefs are, and to be consistent in those if things are going good or things are going bad.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Player, Thinking

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• But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.

  Michael Stipe

  Thinking, Desire, Laurels

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• When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland's people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice.

  Peter Hain

  Opportunity, People, Justice

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• I think I've got an outstanding defensive assistant staff that's really going to help us have consistent, strong defenses. And offensively, we have an excellent staff. We've got some younger guys on offense, but that's what I coach and have my entire coaching career.

  Steve Spurrier

  Sports, Strong, Thinking

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• Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Consistency, Want, Philosopher

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.83, University of Chicago Press

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• Without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

  Maya Angelou

  Courage, Practice, Remember You

  "Diversity : Leaders Not Labels" by Stedman Graham, (p. 224), 2006.

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• I recognize this in my writing process. A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights. I recognize the truth of this in my daily habits. When I set my keys in the place I, with practice, always set my keys... I do not lose them. In many instances an ordered external structure can be an invitation for an extraordinarily unfettered, creative and unbounded inner structure.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Writing, Doors, Practice

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• A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Believe, Intelligent, Destiny

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• Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn't get more consistent than this year.

  Roger Federer

  Years, Careers, Consistency

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• Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Death, Nature

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

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• The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Giving, Rich, Poor

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• A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.

  James Callaghan

  Leadership, Mean, Leader

  "The Harvard Business Review" Magazine, November 1, 1986.

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• Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

  Dr. An Wang

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Lessons: An Autobiography". Book by An Wang, September 22, 1986.

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• All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sympathy, Selfishness, Virtue

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “Notes: Theological, Political and Miscellaneous”, p.341

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• As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

  Joseph Conrad

  Passion, Winning, Men

  Joseph Conrad (2005). “A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.

  Emma Goldman

  Direct Action, Logical, Method

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.44, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Mean, People, Trying

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.33, Reprint Services Corporation

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• De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

  Aldous Huxley

  Revolutionary

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.314, Transaction Publishers

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• Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.

  Barbara Kruger

  Artist, Tactics, Rehabilitation

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