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• The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

  Noah Webster

  Life, Wisdom, Heart

  Noah Webster (1977). “A collection of essays and fugitiv writings 1790”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.

  Roland Barthes

  Country, Drinking, Wine

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• To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

  Robert Breault

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandpa

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• He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Positive, Helping Others

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• I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pain, Pleasure, Avoided

  Michel de Montaigne, James Hain Friswell (1866). “Essays by Montaigne. [A selection.] Edited, compared, revised, and annotated by the Author of “The Gentle Life” [J. H. Friswell].”, p.318

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• The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. ... It was hay that allowed populations to grow and civilizations to flourish among the forests of Northern Europe. Hay moved the greatness of Rome to Paris and London, and later to Berlin and Moscow and New York.

  Freeman Dyson

  Horse, New York, Science

  "Infinite in All Directions" by Freeman Dyson, Ch. 8, (p. 135), 1988.

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• From a spiritual perspective, freedom from attachment to a particular outcome is the ultimate expression of liberation. We can choose the actions we take, but we cannot control the consequences of our choices.

  David Simon

  Spiritual, Attachment, Expression

  David Simon, M.D. (2010). “The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices”, p.28, Health Communications, Inc.

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• We don't just get our choice; we get the consequence that choice creates.

  Melody Beattie

  Choices, Our Choices

  Melody Beattie (2009). “Choices: Taking Control of Your Life and Making It Matter”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.

  Melody Beattie

  Hard Work, Responsibility, Choices

  Melody Beattie (2009). “Choices: Taking Control of Your Life and Making It Matter”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Opportunity, People, Profound

  Ban Ki-moon's closing remarks at High Level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, www.un.org. September 22, 2010.

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• When the first Superman movie came out, I gave dozens of interviews to promote it. The most frequent question was: What is a hero? My answer was that a hero is someone who commits a courageous action without considering the consequences. Now my definition is completely different. I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

  Christopher Reeve

  Hero, Adversity, Thinking

  "Still Me". Book by Christopher Reeve, 1999.

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• I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and temper his mettle without such honour. There is deep in him a sense of the heroic quest; and our modern way of life, with its emphasis on security, its distrust of the unknown and its elevation of abstract collective values has repressed the heroic impulse to a degree that may produce the most dangerous consequences.

  Laurens van der Post

  Hero, Men, Degrees

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• My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more.

  Carl Sagan

  Anatomy And Physiology, Brain, Mind

  Carl Sagan (2012). “Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Art, Arrogance, Trends

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• All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.

  Albert Camus

  Actions Have Consequences, Ideas, Judging

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.67, Vintage

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• Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered.

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, May, Firsts

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.339

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• History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Race, Numbers, People

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which, for various reasons having to do with emotional safety, we have very strong ties of whose meaning and consequences in actuality we have no clear understanding.

  Lionel Trilling

  Strong, Emotional, Ideas

  Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.286, New York Review of Books

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• Now, is it possible not to be hurt at all? Because the consequences of being hurt are the building of a wall around oneself, withdrawing in one's relationship with others in order not to be hurt more. In that there is fear and a gradual isolation. Now, we are asking: Is it possible not only to be free of past hurts but also never to be hurt again?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Hurt, Wall, Past

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1984). “The Flame of Attention”, Harper San Francisco

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• A narcissist society, in which each person is busy looking out for number one, can build neither brotherhood nor community. Aren't we glad in this Easter season and in all seasons that Jesus did not selfishly look out for number one? No wonder we have been told, 'Thou shalt have no other gods
  before me,' and this includes self-worship! (Ex. 20:3; emphasis added). One way or another, the grossly selfish will finally be shattered, whimpering, against the jagged, concrete consequences of their selfishness.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Easter, Selfish

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• None of us needs instruction in how to recognize what your heart is saying. We do need guidance, however, on how to have the courage to follow those feelings, since they will force us to change our lives in any case. But consider the consequences of not listening to the heart's guidance: depression, confusion, and the wretched feeling that we are not on our life's true path, but viewing it from a distance.

  Caroline Myss

  Courage, Distance, Heart

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• What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Writing, Men, Luck

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• Its not possible to do the wrong thing. You do what you do and you experience the consequences of what you do. If you do not experience this before you doe, your soul creates a new life so that you can. This is reincarnation. Eventually, you treat people as you would like to be treated.

  Gary Zukav

  People, Soul, Doe

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• Multi-sensory perception is also the ability to see meaning in everyday experiences...You have non-physical guides and teachers. You access them through your intuition. You hear them 'so to speak' through your insights, inspirations, and clarity. Non-physical teachers cannot control you. You must always decide for yourself how you will use your energy, what you will create. They will assist you to see your choices and the consequences of each. They will guide you to the full scope and depth of your power. How you use your power is up to you.

  Gary Zukav

  Teacher, Inspiration, Choices

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• The optimal choice that you can make in any situation is to grow spiritually. That means intending to create harmony, sharing, cooperation and reverence for life... There is wisdom in each of your choices because each of them creates consequences that you mwill experience and if you choose, learn from.

  Gary Zukav

  Mean, Choices, Soul

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