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"The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair."
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"My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help."

"Maybe consequences are dear friends in stealthy disguise."

"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."

"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)."

"So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get."

"Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed."

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

"I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue for the United States to be involved in."

"Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences."
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"Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again."

"When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool."

"Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him."

"The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this."

"When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see."

"Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world."
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