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As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have... ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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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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The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred. ↗

— Roger Nash Baldwin

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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. ↗

— John Adams

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Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that's happened. But I didn't become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons. ↗

— Angela Bassett

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The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence. ↗

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches. ↗

— Adam Smith

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Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in. ↗

— Emmitt Smith

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