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A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression. ↗

— Criss Jami

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It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. ↗

— Janos Arany

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I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children. ↗

— John James Audubon

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No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

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The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion. ↗

— Peter Bart

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I will continue my consistent record of voting for lower taxes, less spending and fewer regulations to make our government more effective and efficient while upholding our Constitution. ↗

— Roscoe Bartlett

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For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes. ↗

— Bob Beauprez

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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else. ↗

— Ugo Betti

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A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions. ↗

— Joyce Carey

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