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bradleyjg on July 28, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Now Then – the hidden systems that've frozen time ...

Another good quote along those lines is "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Ralph Waldo Emerson. http://www.bartleby.com/100/420.47.html

shaunxcode on July 28, 2014 [–]

my favorite in the same vein is from Walt Whitman:

    Do I contradict myself? 
    Very well then I contradict myself, 
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

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