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• No possible future government in Kabul can be worse than the Taliban, and no thinkable future government would allow the level of Al Qaeda gangsterism to recur. So the outcome is proportionate and congruent with international principles of self-defense.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Government, Self, Principles

  Christopher Hitchens (2004). “Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays”, p.433, Nation Books

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• There have always been those who, though they see tragedy as the outcome of freedom, will nevertheless judge that tragedy is not too high a price to pay.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Judging, Tragedy, Pay

  Kenneth Rexroth (1968). “Classics Revisited”, p.45, New Directions Publishing

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• If this is the degree of inflation planned for in advance, the real outcome is indeed likely to be such that most of those who will retire at the end of the century will be dependent on the charity of the younger generation. And ultimately not morals but the fact that the young supply the police and the army will decide the issue: concentration camps for the aged unable to maintain themselves are likely to be the fate of an old generation whose income is entirely dependent on coercing the young.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Real, Fate, Army

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Part III. Freedom in the Welfare State, Chap. 19 : Social Security, 1960.

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• [Lloyd George] said that Harding's speech on American naval aspirations made him feel that he would pawn his shirt rather than allow America to dominate the seas. If this was to be the outcome of the League of Nations propaganda, he was sorry for the world and in particular for America.

  David Lloyd George

  Sorry, Sea, America

  "The Riddell Diaries 1908-1923". Book by George Allardice Riddell, 1986.

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• I would in fact tend to have more confidence in the outcome of a democratic decision if there was a minority that voted against it, than if it was unanimous... Social psychology has amply shown the strength of this bandwagon effect.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Decision, Psychology, Minorities

  "Habermas and the Public Sphere". Book by Craig Calhoun, 1993.

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• The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse.

  Jaron Lanier

  Crush, Spiritual, Thinking

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• Life's Solution builds a forceful case for the predictability of evolutionary outcomes, not in terms of genetic details but rather their broad phenotypic manifestations. The case rests on a remarkable compilation of examples of convergent evolution, in which two or more lineages have independently evolved similar structures and functions.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Two, Example, Details

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• I have tried to set forth a theory that enables us to understand and to assess these feelings about the primacy of justice. Justice as fairness is the outcome: it articulates these opinions and supports their general tendency.

  John Rawls

  Justice, Support, Feelings

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.513, Harvard University Press

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• Every American may have equal access to ice cream, but there's no guarantee that the outcome of eating ice cream will be equal.

  Dan Savage

  Ice Cream, Guarantees That, May

  Dan Savage (2003). “Skipping Towards Gomorrah”, p.125, Penguin

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• We have rigged the latest election. 93.5 per cent have voted for Lukashenko. But they say it is not a European outcome. We have made it 86 per cent.

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Election, Made, Cents

  Press conference for Ukrainian journalists, November 2006.

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• You can think of my films as cautionary tales, but you might even think of them as despairing tales, because at least in a cautionary tale, you have this idea that by listening to the story you can assure a better outcome. Whereas I'm not at all convinced that's the case. In fact, if anything, I'm convinced that it's the opposite.

  Errol Morris

  Thinking, Opposites, Ideas

  "The Eleven-Minute Psychiatrist". Interview with James Hughes, Stop Smiling Magazine, www.errolmorris.com. March 2006.

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• Those who think through possible outcomes with discipline, forge connections, in so doing, to other cosmi in which those outcomes are more than mere possibilities. Such a consciousness is measurably, quantitatively different from one that has not undertaken the same work and so, yes, is able to make correct decisions in an Emergence where an untrained mind would be of little use.

  Neal Stephenson

  Thinking, Discipline, Decision

  Neal Stephenson (2010). “Anathem”, p.412, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It matters not how spiritual a church may profess to be, if souls are not saved, something is radically wrong, and the professed spirituality is simply a false
  experience, a delusion of the devil. People who are
  satisfied to meet together simply to have a good time
  among themselves are far away from God. Real
  spirituality always has an outcome.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Spiritual, Real, People

  Smith, Oswald J., Smith, Paul B., Sybring, Yvonne (1982). “I Have Walked Alone with Jesus : Day by Day Meditations of Oswald J. Smith”

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• Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.

  Seth Godin

  Believe, Worry, Anxiety

  Seth Godin (2012). “V Is for Vulnerable: Life Outside the Comfort Zone”, p.10, Penguin

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• Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Responsibility, Law, Election

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• Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.

  Joseph Nye

  Done, Coercion, Want

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• The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth - that billions of consumers in India & China will one day enjoy the lifestyles of Europeans and Americans - is as absurd & dangerous a fantasy as anything dreamt up by Al-Qaeda. It condemns the global environment to early destruction & looks set to create reservoirs of nihilistic rage & disappointment among hundreds of millions of have-nots - the bitter outcome of the universal triumph of Western Modernity, which turns the revenge of the East into something darkly ambiguous, and all its victories truly Pyrrhic.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Disappointment, Revenge, Growth

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• The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Country, Religious, Influence

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee

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• But no matter how big the effort to push a propaganda line might be, climate change is bigger. This, undoubtedly and regrettably, is the biggest immediate long-term environmental challenge we face. A failure to concretely come to some policy outcome on climate change has not only a negative environmental impact but also social and economic consequences for us.

  Peter Garrett

  Impact, Long, Effort

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• Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.

  Marianne Williamson

  Happiness, Giving Up, Attachment

  Marianne Williamson (1994). “Illuminata: A Return to Prayer”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.

  Bernie Siegel

  Hope, Mean, Want

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• Our country is not in crisis. There are no tanks in the streets... No matter what the outcome of the president's situation, life in America will go on. Our lives will continue to be filled with practical matters, not constitutional ones.

  Jennifer Dunn

  Country, America, President

  "1999 Republican Response to the State Of The Union Address". www.washingtonpost.com. January 19, 1999.

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• We can think, speak, and bring the best possible outcome into existence by focusing on where we are going, not on where we think we are.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Thinking, Speak, Existence

  Twitter post from Sep 24, 2016

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• One thing is certain: The power of belief, the power of thought, will move reality in the direction of what we believe and conceive of it. If you really believe you can do something, you can. This is a fact. When you clearly envision a victorious outcome, engrave it in your heart and are firmly convinced that you will attain it, your brain makes every effort to realize the mental image you have created. And then, through your unceasing efforts, that victory is finally made a reality.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Believe, Moving, Heart

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• Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view.

  Guy Finley

  Struggle, Past, Echoes

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Nov 24, 2016

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