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  • But it isn’t a rough draft either. The one I turned in several months ago was rough. There were some bad plot holes, some logical inconsistencies, pacing problems, and not nearly enough lesbian unicorns.

  • Determined secularists view these as residual inconsistencies that they have not yet go around to extirpating and that may not be worth bothering about... Form the secularist perspective it may be that the essential battles have been won and excessive zeal in pressing a final mopping-up operation might only excited further public hostility.

  • What a weak, credulous, incredulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the mind of man. How full of inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdities it is. I declare that taking the average of many minds that have recently come before me ... I should prefer the obedience, affections and instinct of a dog before it.

    Dog   Men   Average  
    Michael Faraday, F. James (1999). “The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, Volume 4: 1849-1855”, p.542, IET
  • But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

    Events   Cases   Worst  
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.73, Random House
  • I think nobody since has written such extraordinary work as Shakespeare writes. The characters he writes are full of inconsistencies, which is a great human quality - I mean we're all very inconsistent in the way we behave.

    Source: www.esquire.com
  • Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

    Essence   Games   Play  
  • Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.

    Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown
  • Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

    Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1305, Delphi Classics
  • Reports by Politico, Bloomberg and other news outlets have raised inconsistencies in Melania Trump's immigration story.

    "Inconsistencies Call Melania Trump's Immigration Story Into Question". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. August 5, 2016.
  • In a branch of medicine rife with paradoxes, contradictions, inconsistencies, and illogic, episiotomy crowns them all. The major argument for episiotomy is that it protects the perineum from injury, a protection accomplished by slicing through perineal skin, connective, tissue, and muscle.

    Medicine   Skins   Crowns  
    Henci Goer (1995). “Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities: A Guide to the Medical Literature”, p.276, Greenwood Publishing Group
  • I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.

    Wise   People   Use  
    Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.319, ShandonPress
  • Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

    Real   Eye   Men  
  • There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being thought extremely humble, and would go round the world to punish those who thought them capable of revenge; they are so satisfied of the suavity of their own temper that they would quarrel with their dearest benefactor only for doubting it.

    Revenge   Humble   Doubt  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.42
  • It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to learn that he was perhaps the most vigorous hater of Communism that ever lived on this planet. But the apparent inconsistency vanishes when you read his book and find that by property he means simply legally privileged wealth or the power of usury, and not at all the possession by the labourer of his products.

    Book   Mean   Usury  
    Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub
  • I would not be good with someone who did drugs. As long as I know something, I can deal with anything. I'm really good. But what I'm not good with is inconsistency. And I'm not good with not knowing.

    Knowing   Long   Drug  
    "Life imitates art for Courtney Cox Arquette". May 5, 2004, www.nbcnews.com. May 5, 2004.
  • As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.

    Interview with John Corbett, 1989.
  • There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

  • We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

    Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.544, eKitap Projesi
  • Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

    Joseph Addison (1828). “A second selection from the papers of Addison in the Spectator and Guardian, for the use of young persons, by E. Berens”, p.40
  • My fascination with images open 24 hrs. is based on the complex interlocking if disparate facts heated pool that have no respect for grammar. The form then Denver 39 is second hand to nothing. The work then has a chance to electric service become its own cliché. Luggage. This is the inevitable fate fair ground of any inanimate object freightways by this I mean anything that does not have inconsistency as a possibility built in.

    Mean   Fate   Hands  
  • Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

  • Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.

    Real   Mind   Society  
    Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press
  • There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

    Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.119
  • Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.

    William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.58, 谷月社
  • But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to doubt the truth of the Christian religion; and well they may, for it is too fanciful and too full of conjecture, inconsistency, improbability and irrationality, to afford consolation to the thoughtful man. His reason revolts against his creed. He sees that none of its articles are proved, or can be proved.

    Thomas Paine (1854). “The Works of Thomas Paine: A Hero in the American Revolution. With an Account of His Life ...”, p.260
  • The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture of inconsistency and contradiction; to call which the word of God, is the highest pitch of extravagance: it is to attribute to the deity that which any person of common sense would blush to confess himself the author of.

  • Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

    Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.110, Beard Books
  • The tyranny of Harvard and Yale is another thing that transcends this problem of the set point. But what's so striking about [Louis] Brandeis is he had this vision of cultural pluralism that completely gave the lie to the idea that there was any inconsistency between being Jewish or being a woman or being African American and being fully American.

    Lying   Yale   Ideas  
    "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.
  • The only legitimate interpretation of the concept of the "public" is that it's a highly heterogeneous group of people, and I cannot imagine who has the right to speak on their behalf using a "public" voice. If the multiplicity of the environment is its true nature, then my works defend this truthfulness. The greatest fairness in society is to defend the difference between each individual - the fairness and truthfulness of their inconsistency and differentiation.

    People   Fairness   Speak  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.

    William James (2007). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking”, p.128, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
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