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The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services. ↗

— Paul Getty

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If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy. ↗

— Kristen Bell

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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband. ↗

— John Conyers

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