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• We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from. We have debased the products of work and have been, in turn, debased by them. (pg. 43, "The Unsettling of America")

  Wendell Berry

  Ambition, America, Fit

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• So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Two, Tea, World

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.91

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• I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.

  Thomas Mann

  Home, Artist, Two

  Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.131, Vintage

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• Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.

  Albert Camus

  Suicide, Passion, Three

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.64, Vintage

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• There is always a choice." "You mean I could choose certain death?" "A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Mean, People

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Going Postal: (Discworld Novel 33)”, p.26, Random House

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• I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.

  Alice Munro

  Men, Absurd, Feels

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Nov 18, 2010

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• Then he read the words of the scroll slowly, first in Japanese and then carefully translated into English: 'There is really nothing you must be. And there is nothing you must do. There is really nothing you must have. And there is nothing you must know. There is really nothing you must become. However. It helps to understand that fire burns, and when it rains, the earth gets wet. . . .' 'Whatever, there are consequences. Nobody is exempt,' said the master.

  Robert Fulghum

  Rain, Fire, Earth

  Robert Fulghum (1992). “It was on fire when I lay down on it”, Random House Inc

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• Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)

  Stephen Dobyns

  Ignorance, Responsibility, Actions Have Consequences

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• I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.

  John Irving

  Eye, Past, Views

  John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

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• [Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing the ego's immolation. How beautiful it all seemed at the time of the Enlightenment, that man triumphant would bring to pass that earthly paradise whose groves of academe would ensure the realization forever of peace, plenty, and beatitude in practice. But what a nightmare of wars, famines, and folly was to result therefrom.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Beautiful, War, Men

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• It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.

  Timothy B. Tyson

  Past, Thinking, Cake

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• Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician."- G. A. Custer

  Robert Asprin

  Victory, Battle, Custer

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• She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Alive, Dies

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.

  Sean Covey

  Responsibility, Choices, Path

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction, but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Self, Giving

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.37, Penguin

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• We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else in the world is of any consequence.

  Kate Chopin

  "The Awakening: And Other Stories".

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• The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Lonely, Heart, Night

  Tess Gerritsen (2008). “The Keepsake: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel”, p.10, Ballantine Books

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• Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

  Clarence Jordan

  Belief, Spite, Evidence

  Clarence Jordan (2005). “The Substance of Faith: and Other Cotton Patch Sermons”, p.43, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.

  Neil Gaiman

  Choices, Our Actions, Accepting

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• Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.

  Jane Austen

  Character, Evil, Mind

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• He [Brian Fraser] told me that a man must be responsible for any see he sows, for it's his duty to take care of a woman and protect her. And if I wasna prepared to do that, then I'd no right to burden a woman with the consequences of my own actions.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Men, Care, Action

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• What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but never did...If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It is a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Responsibility, Men

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• The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We use this word all the time, and I think behind it lurk some really extraordinary taboos and confusions. What I want to argue tonight is that how we talk about belief- how we fail to criticize or criticize the beliefs of others, has more importance to us personally, more consequence to us personally and to civilization than perhaps anything else that is in our power to influence.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Believe, Mean

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• Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world to bear, Everlost absorbs the shock, like a cushion between the two.

  Neal Shusterman

  Loss, Two, Tragedy

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the hardest things to teach a child is that truth is more important than consequences.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Wisdom, Children, Important

  "Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary".

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