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Letter "C" » consistency
«Emerson has said that consistency is a virtue of an ass. No thinking human being can be tied down to a view once expressed in the name of consistency. More important than consistency is responsibility. A responsible person must learn to unlearn what he has learned. A responsible person must have the courage to rethink and change his thoughts. Of course there must be good and sufficient reason for unlearning what he has learned and for recasting his thoughts. There can be no finality in rethinking.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
(Politician)
| Keywords:
consistency, Emerson, expressed, finality, recasting, rethink, rethinking, tied, unlearn, unlearning
«Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.»
Author: Bernard Berenson
| About:
Consistency,
Ignorance,
Improvement,
Progress
| Keywords:
As You Were, consistency
«It reminds me of a piece of jade. The emerald light coming from within is refracted and dispersed according to the consistency of the impurities that gave it its quality.»
Author: Thomas D'Evelyn
| Keywords:
consistency, dispersed, dispersing, emerald, emeralds, impurities, impurity, jade, jaded, jades, reminds
«In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.»
Author: Tom Seaver
| About:
Baseball
| Keywords:
baseball, consistency, dwell, dwell on, numbers, shortsighted, strive
«I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.»
Author: Drew Barrymore
(Actress)
| Keywords:
consistency, currents, highs, high and low, lows, more and more, ocean, soft, waves
«PREDICAMENT, n. The wage of consistency.»
«LL.D. Letters indicating the degree _Legumptionorum Doctor_, one learned in laws, gifted with legal gumption. Some suspicion is cast upon this derivation by the fact that the title was formerly _LL.d._, and conferred only upon gentlemen distinguished for their wealth. At the date of this writing Columbia University is considering the expediency of making another degree for clergymen, in place of the old D.D. --_Damnator Diaboli_. The new honor will be known as _Sanctorum Custus_, and written _$$c_. The name of the Rev. John Satan has been suggested as a suitable recipient by a lover of consistency, who points out that Professor Harry Thurston Peck has long enjoyed the advantage of a degree.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
clergymen, Columbia, Columbia University, conferred, Considering, consistency, derivation, derivations, distinguished, expediency, formerly, gifted, gumption, indicating, in place, known as, peck, pecking, peck at, point of honor, professor, recipient, recipients, rev, revving, suggested, suitable, suspicion, The title, title
«I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether»
Author: Lord Byron
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
altogether, arises, consistency, indifference, subject
«One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| About:
Courage,
Potential
| Keywords:
consistency, generous, merciful, necessarily, potential
«Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Faith
| Keywords:
confession, Confessions, consistency, emotional, faithfulness, The Confession
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