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"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences."
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"Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences."
"Consequences need not be the obstacles that I dread, but the direction that I need."
"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."
"A fool's bolt is soon shot."
"Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched."
"If you want to know the value of a year, ask the student who was in the final year of his university education, when the lecturers went on strike and the school ended up closing for a year."
"Every blade has two edges, he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other."
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"Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human."
"Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree."
"The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff."
"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."
"There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380 SL convertible."
"Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient."
"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."
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