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• Nothing can be both completely general and internally consistent at the same time.
  -- Sweer`s Impossibility Theorem...
• The general himself ought to be such a one as can at the same time see both forward and backward.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affai...
• The only completely consistent people are the dead. -- Aldous Huxley
• Be consistent - but don't do it all the time.
• Arbitrary systems, pl.n.: Systems about which nothing general can be said, save "nothing general can be said.
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