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Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. -- Thomas Jefferson
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. -- Ambrose Bierce
You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself. -- Zig Ziglar
It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent. -- Dave Eggers
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait. -- Chris Hemsworth
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered. -- Harriet Martineau
Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face. -- Jim Evans
There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality. -- Bryan White
I think it's inconsistent to tell the American people that you oppose the war and, yet, you continue to vote to fund the war. Because every time you vote to fund the war, you're reauthorizing the war all over again. -- Dennis Kucinich
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated. -- Tryon Edwards
Inconsistent professing Christians injure the Gospel more than the sneering critic or the heretic. -- Charles Spurgeon
Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ! -- Charles Spurgeon
I'm inconsistent, even to myself. -- Bob Dylan
Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent! -- Tom Robbins
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it. -- John C. Calhoun
Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves. -- Mia Wasikowska
Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent. -- Louis D. Brandeis
Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve. -- Pope Francis
Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister. -- Sonia Sotomayor
The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society. -- John Paul Stevens
Everything about Washington is inconsistent, because they say one thing and do another, which is what my opponent, Claire McCaskill, is very, very good at. -- Sarah Steelman
If mothers are our first teachers, then having a narcissistic one teaches us that human closeness is terrifying, and the world is a heartless, inconsistent place. -- Koren Zailckas
I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well. -- Wayne Dyer
The first time that I was elected I was called the Judas Iscariot of the black community because I took a stand that was inconsistent of cutting across the grain. -- Tim Scott
Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions. -- Nathan Myhrvold
It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent. -- Debra Winger
Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license. -- John Desmond Bernal
Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world. -- David Limbaugh
The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wise man; and as ridiculous as an hereditary poet-laureat. -- Thomas Paine
I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice. -- George Mason
The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise. -- Michael Kors
War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed. -- Bayard Rustin
Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns. -- Paul Fussell
Religious institutions should have religious freedom on this issue. No church or minister should ever have to conduct a marriage that is inconsistent with their religious beliefs. But I think as a civil institution, this issue's time has come and we need to move forward. -- Kay Hagan
The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered. I don't think we need to name any names, do we? Our party is encumbered by an inconsistent approach to freedom. The new GOP will need to embrace liberty in both the economic and the personal sphere. -- Rand Paul
... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions. -- Frances Wright
I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that's completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that's fine. But don't make your kids do it. Because we need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems. -- Bill Nye
A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business. -- Walter Bagehot
I'm inconsistent because I'm human. -- Daniel Tammet
A consistent outlook is inconsistent with reality. -- Marty Rubin
To be honest, one must be inconsistent. -- H. G. Wells
Hard to trust honesty of inconsistent person. -- Toba Beta
Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior. -- Warren Buffett
True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent. -- Oscar Wilde
If we played like that every week, we wouldn't be so inconsistent. -- Bryan Robson
Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man! -- Edward Young
Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous. -- Mitch Daniels
Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent. -- Larry Wall
We cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with our beliefs. -- John C. Maxwell
It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker. -- Brennan Manning
Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
When you have an inconsistent season, you learn a lot about yourself and your pitching. -- Mark Mulder
We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves. -- Havelock Ellis
I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector. -- John Henry Newman
I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Steve Kerr, now coaching Golden State after eight tumultuous and very inconsistent years at TNT. -- Marv Albert
One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament. -- John Bercow
Inconsistency is a great door for the change and for the progression! Never hesitate to be inconsistent! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. -- Seneca the Younger
If two norms conflict, if they are mutually inconsistent, then at least one of them must be false. -- Torbjorn Tannsjo
On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations... -- David Douglass
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution. -- Gary L. Francione
To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty. -- Adam Smith
When I was a kid, everything was so unplanned, my parents were so erratic, and my world was so inconsistent. -- Drew Barrymore
Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin. -- Ambrose Bierce
High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life. -- Ramana Maharshi
The New Deal is inconsistent with the principles of limited government and with the constitutional provisions designed to secure that end. -- Richard Allen Epstein
The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'. -- Ian Hacking
If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is a part of living -- Errol Flynn
The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other. -- Larry Wall
Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent. -- Thomas Cahill
Would a special relationship between the United States and the British Commonwealth be inconsistent with our overriding loyalty to the world organization? -- Lord Randolph Churchill
Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that. -- Alan Moore
It is INCONSISTENT to have Jesus pay a price for healing and for us to believe it is not Gods intention to heal. -- Bill Johnson
O! Lover, Enjoyment on the soft body of a lotus is always risky and inconsistent because its route is always surrounded by thorns. -- Manmohan Acharya
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature may shout INCONSISTENT. -- Imre Lakatos
If the Constitution says that marriage is between a man and woman, then things that are inconsistent with that would be inconsistent with the Constitution. -- Rick Santorum
We are complex, and therefore, in our natural state, inconsistent, beings, and the opinion of this hour need not be the opinion of the next. -- James Anthony Froude
No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination. -- Thomas Jefferson
One individual doesn't really accept the pro-life position of the party, and the other... says he supports it and takes a position that is logically inconsistent. -- Alan Keyes
For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Our problem in America is not with atheists or the pagans who are consistent with their unbelief, but with believers who are inconsistent with their belief. -- Randall Terry
To suggest that a person's strongly held religious view is less tolerant than a strongly held antireligious view is morally, intellectually, and politically inconsistent and incorrect. -- Cal Thomas
Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts. -- Thomas Gainsborough
REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin. -- Ambrose Bierce
That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life. -- Benjamin Disraeli
It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
One day of good preaching is no match for six days of inconsistent practice. God will never honor His church with complete success until it completely honors Him. -- Theodore L. Cuyler
Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it. -- John Henry Newman
More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant. -- Dick Morris
I've addressed this before, and I'll say it again: The league has to take a long, hard look at full-time officials. The officiating has been inconsistent all season long. -- Ron Jaworski
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things. -- Demosthenes
... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery. -- Tennessee Celeste Claflin
It's impossible to consistently behave in a manner inconsistent with how we see ourselves. We can do very few things in a positive way if we feel negative about ourselves. -- Zig Ziglar
There are always principles to be depended upon in this matter of taxation ... Amidst the inconsistent, the bewildering representations offered, a certain number must be in accordance with true principles ... -- Harriet Martineau
The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.) -- Carl Sagan
Many witnesses to the shooting of Michael Brown made statements inconsistent with other statements they made and also conflicted with the physical evidence. Some were completely refuted by the physical evidence. -- Robert P. McCulloch
For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good. -- William Wordsworth
advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework. -- Mary Frances Berry
Hypothesis is a toll which can cause trouble if not used properly. We must be ready to abandon our hypothesis as soon as it is shown to be inconsistent with the facts. -- William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
But the debt limit obviously is something that needs to and will be passed. That is not inconsistent with a process and a belief that we have to get significant deficit reduction. -- David Plouffe
The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil fuels is inconsistent with a healthy, prosperous future for our civilization. -- Al Gore
These theories, deontology, the moral rights theory, and utilitarianism, contradict one another. Moreover, they give conflicting (inconsistent) recommendations. It is hence not possible to hold them together, in a pursuit of moral truth. -- Torbjorn Tannsjo
If you're willing to answer yes to a God outside of nature, then there's nothing inconsistent with God on rare occasions choosing to invade the natural world in a way that appears miraculous. -- Richard Dawkins
OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book. -- Ambrose Bierce
We indeed did and do own our own minds and bodies, and anything from church or state that limits that is inappropriate and inconsistent with the ... society that America is supposed to be. -- Hugh Hefner
Sarah learnt a lot from Alex. Like the way men could say one thing, then another, then act in a way inconsistent with both positions and somehow still be convinced of their own integrity. -- Emily Maguire
There are sincere believers who interpret Genesis 1 and 2 in a very literal way that is inconsistent, frankly, with our knowledge of the universe's age or of how living organisms are related to each other. -- Richard Dawkins
My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up. -- Evan Davis
We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension of the cosmic consciousness or our attainment to the transcendent and supracosmic. -- Sri Aurobindo
A great epiphany: I found out that I'm totally confused and I'm good with that. I'm consistently inconsistent. I'm all of the above. I'm OK. I'm a work in progress. That's my next tattoo somewhere. -- Ronnie Dunn

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