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• Decisions can be like car accidents, sudden and full of consequences.

  Allison Glock

  Car, Decision, Accidents

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• A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.

  William Faulkner

  Responsibility, Gentleman, Bears

  William Faulkner (1999). “Novels, 1957-1962”

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• We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

  Maria Montessori

  Religious, Sweet, Children

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• Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Materials, Knows

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• Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.

  Cornel West

  Civilization, Nihilism, Mastery

  FaceBook post by Dr. Cornel West from Jun 20, 2012

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• Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have alternative uses. It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.

  Thomas Sowell

  Philosophy, Causes, Alternatives

  Thomas Sowell (2000). “Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy”, Basic Civitas Books

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• To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living

  Octavia Butler

  Book, Behavior

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Sower”, p.98, Open Road Media

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• We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.

  Francine Rivers

  Jesus, Thieves, Done

  Francine Rivers (2012). “Mark of the Lion Gift Collection: Gift Collection”, p.34, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

  Winston Churchill

  Procrastination, Entering, Delay

  Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.126, A&C Black

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• Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Independent, Responsibility, Self

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• We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.

  David Gemmell

  Strong, Choices, Everyday

  David Gemmell (2005). “Lord of the Silver Bow”, Bantam Press

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• I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was to accept the dangers and all the consequences as calmly as possible. Fretting and sweating about it all was not going to help.

  Roald Dahl

  Past, Bombs, Down And

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Going Solo”, p.102, Penguin

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• So where does Stan fit in this equation?... We are told to meditate on scripture, even the hald that details the consequences of evil, the consequent of Jericho and all. Not to pretend out God has somehow changed since the time of Christ. Obviously, Paul's idea of admirable and noble is quite different from ours. God forgives us, Bill. We have mocked His victory by whitewashing the enemy for the sake of our neighbirs approval." No Greater Love has any man.

  Ted Dekker

  Men, Ideas, Evil

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• Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Courage, Peace, Integrity

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.

  William Blake

  Thinking, Ezekiel, Voice

  William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”

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• Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility. As for whether they are ‘valid,’ let them make up their own minds when they are old enough to do so.

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Mind, Different

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• To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.

  Sister Souljah

  Real, Believe, Men

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• According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency.

  Sam Harris

  Jesus, Believe, Biblical

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• The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

  J. K. Rowling

  Life, Potters, Our Actions

  "Harry Potter And The Prisoner of Azkaban". Book by J. K. Rowling, July 8, 1999.

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• The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.

  Frantz Fanon

  Block, What Matters, Issues

  Frantz Fanon (2007). “The Wretched of the Earth”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. I had not consciously intended to keep May Kasahara a secret from Kumiko. My relationship with her was not that big a deal: whether I mentioned it or not was of no consequence. Once it had flown down a certain delicate channel, however, it had become cloaked in the opacity of secretiveness, whatever my original intention had have been.

  Haruki Murakami

  People, Secret, May

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, October 10, 2011.

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• Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein.

  C.D. Wright

  Goal, Tree, Enemy

  C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.29, Copper Canyon Press

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• From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.

  Amy Tan

  Pain, Stupid, Men

  Amy Tan (2005). “Saving Fish from Drowning”, p.24, Penguin

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• For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Ends, Source

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.14, Macmillan

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• Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.

  Dalai Lama

  Karma, Believe, Principles

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