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Consistency Quotes and Quotations
 Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.  Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency. Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. 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 tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today. Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force. There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice. People who honestly mean to be true, really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'. The only man who can change his mind is the man who's got one. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent. Shoemaker, stick to your last. - Pliny 
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