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Consequence Quotes
"I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences."
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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."
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"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."
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"Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful."
"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."
"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities."
"The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock."
"Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions."
"The only thing destroying us is ignorance."
"All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations."
"What you do as president has consequences."
"Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences."
"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."
"Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes."
"Anyone who considers using a weapon of mass destruction against the United States or its allies must first consider the consequences... We would not specify in advance what our response would be, but it would be both overwhelming and devastating."
"A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes."
"If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe."
"The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair."
"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things."
"The price of ignorance is usually a life of frustration and destruction."
"There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities."
"Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort."
"I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it."
"Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present."
"All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions."
"The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself."
"If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and damn the consequences."
"Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched."
"Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious."
"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."
"The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory."
"Only a fool lights a fire and tries to hide at the same time."
"Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences."
"There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences."
"In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine."
"There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use."
"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."
"The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective."
"Those who neglect the demands of life, they live in perpetual pain and regret."
"It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say."
"If you step on a serpent, it will reply you with its fangs."
"Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did."
"Granted, prostate exams aren't the most enjoyable things in the world, but they only last about 10 seconds. It's well worth it. Just think of the possible consequences if you don't get it done."
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