#consist

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#constitution #her #inconsistencies #like #owes

We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature. The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the way to more detailed studies, requiring larger statistics, which will pin down the new particle's properties, and is likely to shed light on other mysteries of our universe. ↗

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

#detailed #discovery #down #larger #light

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#consistent #dead #dealt #even #gone

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#force #groups #i #i see #inconsistent

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#activity #consists #pool #running #stagnant

Don't be "consistent" but be simple true. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#simple #true

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#simply #true

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#despise #half #i #life #making

The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be. ↗

— Allan Houston

#better #better off #character #consistent #father