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You're treating them as universals, to be rendered consistent by logic.

It takes willpower which you could be using to help your kids with their homework or to finish that important work project, and because willpower is limited, any strategy that relies on its consistent application is pretty much guaranteed to eventually fail you when your attention moves on to something else.

The model that at least I was brought up in and a lot of us doing business were brought up in was one which talked about what I call the three G's of growth: growth that is consistent, quarter on quarter; growth that is competitive, better than the other person; and growth that is profitable, so you continue to make more and more shareholder value.

But once they gave them the hormones consistent with the gender they affirm, they look beautiful.

In the early 19th century, if you were a geologist and made a claim about the age of the Earth, you had to explain whether that was consistent or how it was or wasn't consistent with the age of the Earth implied by the account in Genesis.

So there's a big change, and that division, that intellectual division of labor occurs as I say, I think, and it sort of solidifies so that by the end of the 19th century in Europe, there's a real intellectual division of labor, and you can do all sorts of serious things, including, increasingly, even philosophy, without being constrained by the thought, "Well, what I have to say has to be consistent with the deep truths that are given to me by our religious tradition."

He established consistent taxation for all provinces, ending private exploitation by local tax officials.

They all are consistent with the 42 points, but the ideas behind these lines are dramatically different.

Or, they look at large scales and change how gravity and general relativity work, or they say our universe is just one of many, part of this mysterious multiverse, but all of these ideas, all of these theories, amazing and admittedly some of them a little crazy, but all of them consistent with our 42 points.

This will increase by 1,000 within the first four months: 1.5 million supernovae by the end of its survey, each supernova a roll of the dice, each supernova testing which theories of dark energy are consistent, and which ones are not.

There are many, many mathematically consistent sets of laws.

So this is a problem, believe it or not, that reflective physicists really think a lot about, and at this point they tend to go metaphysical, say, well, maybe the set of laws that describes our universe, it's just one set of laws and it describes one part of reality, but maybe every consistent set of laws describes another part of reality, and in fact all possible physical worlds really exist, they're all out there.

And this is consistent across Finland, the U.S. and China, and is true regardless of how much you actually weigh.

And unfortunately, I'm sad to report that right now we might be in the grips of one of the most disastrous, certainly of my career, and one consistent takeaway is manias never end well.

Think of all the crazy technologies that you could have imagined maybe humans could have developed in the fullness of time: cures for aging, space colonization, self-replicating nanobots or uploading of minds into computers, all kinds of science fiction-y stuff that's nevertheless consistent with the laws of physics.

But they started speaking to us after a while, and what we found out is that while we were walking, they were watching us, and they wanted to make sure of a couple of things: that number one, we were going to be consistent in our behavior, that we would keep coming out there; and then secondly, they had wanted to make sure that we weren't out there to exploit them.

And as we lead, we must never forget that every single one of our students is just a child, often scared by what the world tells them they should be, and no matter what the rest of the world tells them they should be, we should always provide them with hope, our undivided attention, unwavering belief in their potential, consistent expectations, and we must tell them often, if nobody told them they loved them today, remember we do, and we always will.

The density of matter is finite, and we have a chance of a consistent set of equations that can describe the whole process.

We need to make the best mathematical models we can, the most consistent ones.

Drugsheaven was offering excellent and consistent marijuana at a reasonable price.

Because if people believe that they're true, they create ways of living and institutions that are consistent with these very false ideas.

So we created a factory system consistent with that false view of human nature.

But once that system of production was in place, there was really no other way for people to operate, except in a way that was consistent with Adam Smith's vision.

Behavioral researchers have identified consistent patterns that seem to guide this process of impression updating.

The two sides of the updating story are ultimately quite consistent.

Let's create a water system that's consistent with out environmental values.

Because you have to be consistent.

But the chances of being right or left-handed are determined by the handedness of your parents in surprisingly consistent ratios.

But to keep things consistent, the creators of Star Trek and other science-fiction worlds have introduced the concept of a universal translator, a portable device that can instantly translate between any languages.

If each group gives a consistent answer, either everyone is telling the truth, or the two possessed students are paired together.

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