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Consistency is always easier to defend than correctness. -- Air Force Inertia Axiom
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Consistency is the product of small minds. -- Merle P. Marti
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. -- Bernard Berenso
Consistently separating words by spaces became a general custom about the tenth century A.
D., and lasted until about 1957, when FORTRAN abandoned the practice....
cons: /konz/ or /kons/ [from LISP] 1. vt. To add a new element to a specified list, esp.
at the top. "OK, cons picking a replacement for the console TTY onto the agenda....
CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Consolations, Consultations, Conflagrations.
console:: n. 1. The operator's station of a {mainframe}.
In times past, this was a privileged location that conveyed godlike powers to anyone with fingers on its keys....
Conspicuous Minimalism: A life-style tactic similar to Status Substitution.
The nonownership of material goods flaunted as a token of moral and intellectual superiority....

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