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  2. Wikipedia:Emerson and Wilde on consistency - Wikipedia

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    The Emerson and Wilde quotations, in their original actual senses, are often theoretically pertinent in regard to Wikipedia:Consensus can change arguments, as when status-quo stonewalling is getting in the way of common sense adjustments to an outmoded approach to how we do something around here.

  3. Self-Reliance - Wikipedia

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay called for staunch individualism. "Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson.It contains the most thorough statement of one of his recurrent themes: the need for each person to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas.

  4. Wikipedia:Consistency - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia:Emerson and Wilde on consistency, an essay on the misuse of famous writers' fragmentary quotations about consistency; Wikipedia:Consistency proposal, a failed 2006 proposal for a consistency guideline for facts in articles (formerly at Wikipedia:Consistency)

  5. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Wikipedia

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), [2] who went by his middle name Waldo, [3] was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

  6. Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia essays/Assessment/Links

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    Wikipedia:Criticisms of society may be consistent with NPOV and reliability: 1216 — 109: 230.16 745: Wikipedia:Don't be inconsiderate: 1267 — 108: 228.67 746: Wikipedia:Adjectives in your recommendations: 1227 — 108: 228.27 747: Wikipedia:Not everything needs a template: 1213 — 108: 228.13 748: Wikipedia:Because I can: 1208 — 108: 228 ...

  7. The Conduct of Life - Wikipedia

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    Though hailed by Thomas Carlyle as "the writer's best book" [12] and despite its commercial success, initial critical reactions to The Conduct Of Life were mixed at best. The Knickerbocker praised it for its "healthy tone" and called it "the most practical of Mr. Emerson's works," [13] while The Atlantic Monthly attested that "literary ease and flexibility do not always advance with an author ...

  8. Consistency - Wikipedia

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    A consistency proof is a mathematical proof that a particular theory is consistent. [8] The early development of mathematical proof theory was driven by the desire to provide finitary consistency proofs for all of mathematics as part of Hilbert's program .

  9. Thomas Carlyle - Wikipedia

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    Emerson (and other like-minded Americans) had been deeply affected by Carlyle's essays and determined to meet him during the northern terminus of a literary pilgrimage; it was to be the start of a lifelong friendship and a famous correspondence. 1833 saw the publication of the essays "Diderot" and "Count Cagliostro"; in the latter, Carlyle ...