#consist

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. ↗

— Josh Billings

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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way. ↗

— Aaron Allston

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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. ↗

— Maya Angelou

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To me, style is consistency. ↗

— Adam Ant

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

— Margaret Atwood

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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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