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• We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.

  Martin Van Buren

  Country, Rights, Effort

  Martin Van Buren (1969). "Martin Van Buren, 1782-1862: cronología-documentos-ayudas bibliográficas".

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• La verdad puede ser desconcertante. Puede que haya que esforzarse para comprenderla. Puede ser contraintuitiva. Puede contradecir prejuicios profundamente arraigados. Puede no estar en consonancia con lo que desesperadamente queremos que sea verdad. Pero nuestras preferencias no determinan la verdad.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Prejudice, Vastness

  "Wonder and Skepticism". The Skeptical Inquirer 19 (1), www.csicop.org. January/February 1995.

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• Imagina un poema escrito con palabras tridimensionales tan enormes que tuviéramos que inventar una palabra más pequeña para referirnos a cada una de las grandes; que tuviéramos que reescribirlo todo en taquigrafía, aplastándolo en dos dimensiones, sólo para hablar de él. O no te lo imagines. Mira fuera. El lenguaje humano es nuestro intento de navegar por el lenguaje de Dios; somos nosotros corriendo entre las líneas de su epopeya, trepando por las vocales y construyendo casas con las consonantes.

  N.D. Wilson

  Running, Epic, Escalada

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• La creación y destrucción de tensiones armónicas y "estadísticas" es esencial para mantener el dramatismo compositivo. Cualquier composición (o improvisación) que se mantenga consonante y "regular" en todo momento equivale, para mí, a ver una película en la que sólo salen "los buenos", o a comer requesón.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Drama, Guitar

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• Say something in Mandarin,” said Tessa, with a smile. Jem said something that sounded like a lot of breathy vowels and consonants run together, his voice rising and falling melodically: “Ni hen piao liang.” “What did you say?” Tessa was curious. “I said your hair is coming undone — here,” he said, and reached out and tucked an escaping curl back behind her ear. Tessa felt the blood spill hot up into her face, and was glad for the dimness of the carriage. “You have to be careful with it,” he said, taking his hand back, slowly, his fingers lingering against her cheek.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Fall, Hair

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• In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to ignore the fact that, deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the sceptics, are trying to figure out how the world works and what our role in it might be. Their motives are in many cases consonant with science. If their culture has not given them all the tools they need to pursue this great quest, let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped.

  Carl Sagan

  Kindness, Fear, Real

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.298, Ballantine Books

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• Como el pueblo es la única fuente legítima de poder, y es de él de quien deriva la carta constitucional bajo la cual las diversas ramas del gobierno ejercen su poder, parece estrictamente congruente con la teoría republicana recurrir a la misma autoridad original, no sólo cada vez que sea necesario ampliar, disminuir o remodelar los poderes del gobierno, sino también cada vez que alguno de los departamentos pueda cometer usurpaciones de las autoridades conferidas a los otros.

  James Madison

  Gobierno, Pueblo, Ramas

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). "El Federalista, sobre la nueva constitución, escrito en 1788, con un apéndice, que contiene las cartas de Pacificus y Helvidius sobre la proclamación de neutralidad de 1793, también los artículos originales de la confederación y la constitución de los Estados Unidos", p.233

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• The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is true that capitalism does -- if that catch-phrase has any meaning -- but this is merely a secondary consequence. The moral justification for capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man's rational nature, that it protects man's survival qua man, and that its ruling principle is: justice

  Ayn Rand

  Lying, Men, Justice

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.78, Penguin

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• Aprende aquí la ciencia de los santos: Todo se encuentra en la pasión de Jesús. Esfuérzate por permanecer oculto en las llagas de Jesús, y te enriquecerás con todo bien y toda luz verdadera, permitiéndote volar hacia esa Perfección que está en consonancia con tu forma de vida.

  Pablo de la Cruz

  Jesús, Pasión, Luz

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• The constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the objects and purposes, for which those powers were conferred. By a reasonable interpretation, we mean, that in case the words are susceptible of two different senses, the one strict, the other more enlarged, that should be adopted, which is most consonant with the apparent objects and intent of the Constitution.

  Historia de Joseph

  Media, Vistas, Dos

  Joseph Story (1851). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.298

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• J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dog, Latin, Verbs

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.115, 谷月社

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• School is consonantal in its unchanging schedule. God, full of possibility, is a vowel. Death: the ultimate consonant.

  Myla Goldberg

  School, Vowels, Schedules

  Myla Goldberg (2005). “Bee Season”, Anchor

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• El reto para Estados Unidos es extender a Asia el escudo defensivo del poderío estadounidense en formas acordes con la libertad y el amor propio asiáticos.

  Fernando Marcos

  América, Yo, Desafíos

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• The secret to freestyling is working on the creation of thought and it being expressed from your cerebral cortex, to the air in your lungs, to your larynx, pharynx, to your tongue to form a word via whatever consonants and vowels you're working with as well as having a sense of style, cadence, and rhythm.

  Myka 9

  Air, Secret, Style

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• That kind of skeptical, questioning, "don't accept what authority tells you" attitude of science - is also nearly identical to the attitude of mind necessary for a functioning democracy. Science and democracy have very consonant values and approaches, and I don't think you can have one without the other.

  Carl Sagan

  Attitude, Thinking, Democracies Have

  Carl Sagan, Tom Head (2006). “Conversations with Carl Sagan”, p.130, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The answer comes to me through studying the lives of the Rosa Parks and the Vaclav Havels and the Nelson Mandelas and the Dorothy Days of this world. These are people who have come to understand that no punishment that anybody could lay on us could possibly be worse than the punishment we lay on ourselves by conspiring in our own diminishment, by living a divided life, by failing to make that fundamental decision to act and speak on the outside in ways consonant with what we know to be true on the inside.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Punishment, People, Decision

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• Filológicamente, la palabra Kodak carece de sentido como la primera pringue de un niño. Tersa, abrupta hasta la grosería, literalmente mordida por consonantes firmes e inflexibles en ambos extremos, te salta como el obturador de una cámara en la cara. Qué más se puede pedir. (Explicando por qué llamó Kodak a su empresa).

  George Eastman

  Children, Unyielding, Faces

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• La llamé Kinko's por mi apodo, porque tenía el pelo muy rizado. Si lo piensas, lo primero que aprende un bebé es "Googoo, gaga", y si piensas en buenas empresas como Kodak, Xerox, Google, la gente recuerda las consonantes, por eso Kinko's era un buen nombre. Pero en realidad yo tenía una gran cabeza de pelo rizado y antes de llamarme 'Kinko' era 'Pube Head'. Así que pensé que Kinko's era mejor que Pubo's.

  Paul Orfalea

  Baby, Thinking, Curly Hair

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• A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. It is not unusual that readers take away something that is spiritually at variance from what I myself experienced. That's not to say readers make up the book they want. We all have to agree on the facts. But readers bring their histories and all sets of longings. A book will pluck the strings of those longings differently among different readers.

  Richard Ford

  Believe, Book, Different

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• K, n. A consonant; originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of [one of two lofty columns in] the great temple of Jarute.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Two, Shapes, Temples

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• [La carrera que debe elegir un joven debe ser] la que esté más en consonancia con nuestra dignidad, la que se base en ideas de cuya verdad estemos plenamente convencidos, la que nos ofrezca el mayor margen para trabajar por la humanidad y acercarnos a esa meta general hacia la que cada profesión ofrece sólo uno de los medios: la meta de la perfección ... Si sólo trabaja para sí mismo, puede llegar a ser un erudito famoso, un gran sabio, un excelente escritor imaginativo [ Dichter ], pero nunca un hombre perfeccionado, verdaderamente grande.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Men, Careers

  "Reflections of a Youth on Choosing an Occupation", 1835.

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• There are many portions of economical doctrine which appear to me as scientific in form as they are consonant with facts.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Doctrine, Facts, Form

  William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.6

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• Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.

  Louis Untermeyer

  Spring, Vowels, Soil

  1965 Bygones.

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• ... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.

  Edith Wharton

  Pruebe

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1266, Delphi Classics

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