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"Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done."

"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."

"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."

"Consequences need not be the obstacles that I dread, but the direction that I need."

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

"If you step on a serpent, it will reply you with its fangs."

"Every blade has two edges, he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other."

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

"You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want."
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"The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country."

"I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth."

"These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero."

"My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning."

"MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance."

"I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is."
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