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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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"I really hope that the Japanese are going to stop demonstrating to the world what man-made radiation does to people."

"An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes."

"There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse."

"We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later."

"Sometimes consequences are building blocks fashioned of granite when successes are shaped of clay."

"A fool's bolt is soon shot."

"There are consequence every action, whether evil or good."

"There are consequences to ignoring consequences that are a consequence of my blatant unwillingness to learn from my consequences."

"A consequence may be the very thing that saves us because it was the only thing loud enough to get our attention."

"Good intentions but bad results, bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every task dark."
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"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."

"The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawkish about the sufferings of their inferiors, which they can never begin to understand, and to be patronizingly kind."

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

"But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government."

"The strange words rolled through his mind; rumbled, like talking thunder; like the drums at the summer dances, if the drums could have spoken; like the men singing the Corn Song, beautiful, beautiful, so that you cried."

"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own."

"He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul."

"The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And too sensitive, even if he were convinced, to carry it out. His muscles would like to act and his feelings would like to believe; but his nerve-endings and his cleverness won't allow it."
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