Consequence Quotes
1836 quotes by 1341 authors
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Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities…
— Vince Cable
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I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.
— Albert Camus
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A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the…
— Whittaker Chambers
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A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to…
— Chanakya
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I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.
— Lee Child
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Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.
— Noam Chomsky
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State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.
— Noam Chomsky
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Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences…
— Noam Chomsky
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The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make,…
— Tori Amos
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Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view. Yet the living…
— Richard Dawkins
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The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was…
— Albert Einstein
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Among the more irritating consequences of our flagrantly religious society is the special dispensation that mainstream religions receive. We all may talk about religion as…
— Natalie Angier
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You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary…
— Ayn Rand
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You are the one who must decide whose thoughts you will entertain. You are free to choose-but you are not free to alter the consequences…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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I think the money that I've got is a consequence of the activities I've been doing and the interests that I've had in my life.…
— Clive Palmer
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
— Walter Alston
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Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment, is like the answer to…
— John Hospers
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
— Samuel Johnson
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It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite…
— Winston Churchill
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There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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