Cancer is the emergent property of the accumulated errors in an ordered system. It's the consequences of random events. — Steven Popkes Copy Share Image
There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
Always carry with you into the pulpit a sense of the immense consequences which may depend on your full and faithful presentation… — Richard Salter Storrs Copy Share Image
A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work. — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
In a time of continued population growth the consequences are devastating, needless to say. The Earth is too crowded already in terms… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
When you take on the position of president, you are committing yourself to, first and foremost, protecting the American people. You are… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and… — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
Government welfarism, with its ever-increasing army of pensioners and other beneficiaries, is fatally easy to launch and fatally easy to extend, but… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
At some fundamental level, religion does not allow for compromise. It insists on the impossible. If God has spoken, then followers are… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This view [of the infinite], which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is much like the "lovemaking of elephants", which is accompanied with a lot of bellowing and other sound effects, but no… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
There is always a choice." "You mean I could choose certain death?" "A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Three principles - the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the utility of certain parts… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Now, to a single-minded man, who is either brave enough or reckless enough to surrender himself wholly to one idea, and look… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Multi-sensory perception is also the ability to see meaning in everyday experiences...You have non-physical guides and teachers. You access them through your… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
His attention caught, her companion raised his eyes from the book which lay open beside him on the table and directed them… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
People are offering competing visions of what happened in the past. And the justice system is willing to accept either of those… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I live a much better life without having to worry about people chasing me. I spent five years in prison from 21… — Frank Abagnale Copy Share Image
It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a… — Liam Fox Copy Share Image
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our… — Godfrey Reggio Copy Share Image
[Warren Beatty] definitely sees 'Rules' as a comedic consequence to the American sexual puritanism that is dramatically presented in 'Splendor.' — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
But now I know how large the world is... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and… — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
We want to put a stop to tax havens. We want results on this, with a list of tax havens and a… — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written or overheard, intuitive or preconceived. — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave the consequences to Him who has the disposal of them — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Seldom has a battle, in which greater numbers were not engaged, been so important in its consequences as that of Cowpens. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The consequences for human welfare involved in questions about human capital spillovers are simply staggering. Once one starts to think about them,… — Robert Lucas, Jr Copy Share Image