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"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."

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

"Maybe we ought to consider that sometimes the most destructive outcomes in our lives are the ones that we've created."

"The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history."

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

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

"No matter how strong you are, you don't just fight any fight at all! When you fight a wrong fight, you die a wrong death!"

"Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass."

"Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward."
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"One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very remiss in this duty and makes the creditor wait tediously. But that second man has his own way of looking at things; asks himself Which debt must I pay first, the debt to the rich, or the debt to the poor? the debt of money or the debt of thought to mankind, of genius to nature? For you, O broker, there is not other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred."

"A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss."

"America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres."
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