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Without [consistency], our lives would be difficult, erratic, and disjointed.
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When it occurs unthinkingly, consistency can be disastrous. Nonetheless, even blind consistency has its attractions.
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Once we have made up our minds about an issue, stubborn consistency allows us an appealing luxury: we don’t have to think hard about the issue anymore.
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…a high degree of consistency is normally associated with personal and intellectual strength. It is the heart of logic, rationality, stability, and honesty.
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Sometimes it is the cursedly clear and unwelcome set of answers provided by straight thinking that makes us mental slackers.
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Sealed within the fortress walls of rigid consistency, we can be impervious to the sieges of reason.
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Once a stand is taken, there is a natural tendency to behave in ways that are stubbornly aligned with the stand.
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The tactic of starting with a little request in order to gain eventual compliance with related larger requests has a name: the foot-in-the-door technique.
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…once a person’s self-image is altered, all sorts of subtle advantages become available to someone who wants to exploit the new image.
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Our best evidence of people’s true feelings and beliefs comes less from their words than from their deeds.
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