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"All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions."
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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."

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

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

"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."

"The price of ignorance is usually a life of frustration and destruction."

"We work hard to believe that our actions really don't affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much."

"One should not be obstinate even in worldly interaction. If you are obstinate with a 'collector', what will he do? He will throw you in jail. So then what will happen if you are obstinate with God? God won't put you in jail, but his happiness upon you will break (will go away)."

"Only a fool lights a fire and tries to hide at the same time."
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"The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it."

"Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith."

"God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."

"Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it."

"I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth."
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