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"One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson - paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty."
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"Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences."

"Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful."

"Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand. And, unless someone reaches to pull you out, chances are you will drown in the consequences."

"All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations."

"If I'm going to do anything extreme, I want it to have consequences."

"Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched."

"The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself."

"Nothing is free in this world. That which comes before you is your very own."

"Consequences are not the spoiler that kills my dreams. Rather, they are the lessons that enhance my dreaming."
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"Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books."

"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations of misery."

"The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room."

"Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive, even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy."

"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."

"In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ..."

"And whatever troubled him and showed in his face might have been the same old trouble - the problem of occupying space in the world and having a name people could call you by, being somebody they thought they could know."

"Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves."

"What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera."
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