“ You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself. ”
- Zig Ziglar- Copy
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“ Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. ”
- Walter Scott- Copy
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“ Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity. ”
- Gerald Vann- Copy
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“ We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves. ”
- Havelock Ellis- Copy
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“ We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity. ”
- che guevara- Copy
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“ Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance. ”
- Ellen Glasgow- Copy
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“ Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age. ”
- Dorothy Sayers- Copy
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“ People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. ”
- Harold Ross- Copy
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“ Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. ”
- Seneca- Copy
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“ Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it. ”
- John Calhoun- Copy
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“ Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force… It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered. ”
- Harriet Martineau- Copy
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“ For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ Egoism, which is the moving force of the world, and altruism, which is its morality, these two contradictory instincts, of which one is so plain and the other so mysterious, cannot serve us unless in the incomprehensible alliance of their irreconcilable antagonism. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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“ Private schools prop up the class system in society. It is inconsistent, to put it mildly, for someone who believes in a fairer and more egalitarian society to send their child to a fee-paying school. But I had to choose between my reputation as a politician and my son. ”
- Diane Abbott- Copy
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“ Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery. ”
- Daniel De Leon- Copy
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“ A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
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“ Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated. ”
- Tyron Edwards- Copy
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“ OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an old man. Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an old book. "Old books? The devil take them!" Goby said. "Fresh every day must be my books and bread… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her home when in appearance she seems firmly settled. ”
- Ben Johnston- Copy
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“ Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws — a thing which can never be demonstrated. ”
- Tryon Edwards- Copy
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