Consequence Quote by Steve Allen

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“Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.”

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Consider the wave of revulsion that floods the average person when he or she hears of the practice of human sacrifice by the Aztecs…

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In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

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Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

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The fundamentalist believer is mostly a weird intellectual who often lacks real faith altogether. As a self-appointed attorney for God, who is in no…

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There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only on the…

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I personally find it difficult to accept that there could be anyone on earth insensitive to the comic abilities of Laurel and Hardy, Sid…

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Everybody is somewhere.

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The Bible is unfortunately unclear on a long list of moral and social questions and sex is one of them. On the one hand,…

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Pretend you're a southern sheriff. Or Mae West. Or Donald Duck. Buy a western hat and walk around the house like a cowboy. The…

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We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.

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I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad…

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The world's problems are, by and large, human problems-the unavoidable consequence of egoic sleepwalking. If we care to look, all the signs are present…

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The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from…

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When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who…

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It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest.

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Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

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The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

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Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself…

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There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.

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Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical consequence is…

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