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Consequence Quotes
"One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson - paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty."
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"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."
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"There are consequences to ignoring consequences that are a consequence of my blatant unwillingness to learn from my consequences."
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"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."
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"Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass."
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"There are consequence every action, whether evil or good."
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"Those who neglect the demands of life, they live in perpetual pain and regret."
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"The only thing destroying us is ignorance."
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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."
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"When you drop a pebble into a pond, ripples spread out, changing all the water in the pool. The ripples hit the shore and rebound, bumping into one another, breaking each other apart. In some small way, the pond is never the same again."
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"However, in many instances we might be very wise to ask what the consequence of removing the consequence might actually be."
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"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."
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"There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse."
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"Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious."
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"Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward."
9
"Great, I thought. We just blowtorched a national monument."
9
"An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes."
8
"Consequences need not be the obstacles that I dread, but the direction that I need."
8
"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."
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"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."
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"If it's the benefit to myself that drives my decisions, I can know that I'm driving down a long road with a short bridge."
8
"Bitterness and sweetness, are both fruits of egoism. Doing egosim of good deeds brings sweetness. Doing egosim of bad deeds brings bitterness."
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"The sinners to whom Jesus directed His messianic ministry were not those who skipped morning devotions or Sunday church. His ministry was to those whom society considered real sinners. They had done nothing to merit salvation. Yet they opened themselves to the gift that was offered them. On the other hand, the self - righteous placed their trust in the works of the Law and closed their hearts to the message of grace."
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"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)."
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"A fool's bolt is soon shot."
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"We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later."
6
"One more drink and I'd have been under the host."
6
"Expensive pleasures will soon bring the richest person down."
6
"Maybe we ought to consider that sometimes the most destructive outcomes in our lives are the ones that we've created."
6
"You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want."
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"Sometimes consequences are building blocks fashioned of granite when successes are shaped of clay."
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"Consequences are not the spoiler that kills my dreams. Rather, they are the lessons that enhance my dreaming."
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"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!"
6
"The problem with radiation research is that you are constantly battling the biological effects of delayed radiation complications."
5
"A consequence may be the very thing that saves us because it was the only thing loud enough to get our attention."
5
"I really hope that the Japanese are going to stop demonstrating to the world what man-made radiation does to people."
5
"Be sure your sin will find you out...Be sure."
5
"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."
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"Every blade has two edges, he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other."
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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."
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"The price of ignorance is usually a life of frustration and destruction."
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"If you step on a serpent, it will reply you with its fangs."
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"Where am I? you ask. Where you are is where the things you've denied worshipping have taken you."
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"Those that choose to walk in the light will experience light.Those that choose the opposite path create for themselves the opposite experience."
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"Let us draw from the crib the joy and deep peace that Jesus comes to bring to the world."
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