“ Creative people exhibit a continuous discontent with uniformity. ”
- Glenn van Ekeren- Copy
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“ Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. ”
- Noam Chomsky- Copy
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“ Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 3.8K
“ It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles. ”
- Eleanor Roosevelt- Copy
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“ I would put her appeal down to consistency. In their eyes, she has never let them down. There's a sameness, but at the same time a vitality. ”
- Prince Andrew- Copy
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“ Chelsea's consistency is beyond us. We want to be the nearest team to them, just in case they have a Devon Loch moment and collapse. ”
- Alex Ferguson- Copy
- 198
“ Consistency is what's missing in his game, and he's not 100 per cent sure of his game. ”
- Roger Federer- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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“ America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. ”
- Justice Louis D. Brandeis- Copy
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“ Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I distrust great men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood, too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. ”
- Edward M. Forster- Copy
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“ Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. ”
- Sir Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed. ”
- Mary Parker Follett- Copy
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“ Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. ”
- Jean Paul Richter- Copy
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“ I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. ”
- E. M. Forster- Copy
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“ Tush! Tush! my lassie, such thoughts resigne, Comparisons are cruele: Fine pictures suit in frames as fine, Consistencie's a jewell. For thee and me coarse cloathes are best, Rude folks in homelye raiment drest, Wife Joan and goodman Robin. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 3.7K
“ What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'. ”
- Joan Miró- Copy
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“ Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Tyron Edwards- Copy
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“ And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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