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• Hours of crisis often call for sacrifice. In matters of consequence, when have doubt and fear given the best advice? Why not heed faith, courage, and honor?

  Brandon Mull

  Sacrifice, Advice, Doubt

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• We all make mistakes. Sometimes I think the only point of our miserable lives is simply to learn how to live with the consequences of the bad decisions we´ve made.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mistake, Thinking, Decision

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.681, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Mean, Discipline, Students

  Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson (2011). “The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind”, p.139, Delacorte Press

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• Two and two make four. Nature doesn't ask your advice. She isn't interested in your preferences or whether or not you approve of her laws. You must accept nature as she is with all the consequences that that implies.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Law, Two, Advice

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• Men of thoughtless actions are always surprised by consequences.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Men, Action

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.13, Bantam

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• The difficulty is not making a decision, it's living with the consequences.

  Micah Baldwin

  Decision, Difficulty

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• Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Goal, Psychology, Unintended Consequences

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• Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Dream, Religious

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• In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion.

  Thomas Paine

  Kings, War, Pride

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.7, Ravenio Books

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• New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness. A lot of people seem to be similar to the kid in school, which is doing a lot of things with no direct consequence to their joy, or their lives.

  Ezra Miller

  School, Kids, Concentration Of Wealth

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everyone must be clear that business as usual is not an option. Most of us live in buildings erected long before we were born and our successors will have to live with the environmental consequences of the buildings we construct today. It is vital that we minimise harmful impacts for those who come after us

  Margaret Beckett

  Business, Impact, Long

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• If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

  John Green

  I Hate You, Alaska, Knowing Better

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• Sometimes people fail to see that individual decisions have universal consequences.

  Yaya Toure

  People, Decision, Sometimes

  "Interview with International Football Star Yaya Touré". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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• We are saying that if the Holocaust occurred, then Europe must draw the consequences and that it is not Palestine that should pay the price for it. If it did not occur, then the Jews have to go back to where they came from. I believe that the German people today are also prisoners of the Holocaust.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Believe, Pay The Price, Europe

  "We Are Determined". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. May 30, 2006.

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• When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.

  Albert Camus

  Eye, People, Giving

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• A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.

  Helmut Jahn

  Thinking, Reverse, Propose

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• Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Firsts, Power Corrupts

  Letter to Nathaniel Macon, 1821.

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• I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

  Billy Joel

  Care, Fool, Has Beens

  Song: For The Longest Time, 1997

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• Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

  Grace Jones

  Believe, Decision, Complaining

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• I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Positive, Basketball

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.

  Tony Judt

  Perfect, Answers, Improvement

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.109, Penguin

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• Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Running, Romance, Leader

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• 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.

  Allen Klein

  Country, Tragedy, World

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• Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

  Karl Kraus

  Sorry, Law, Abortion

  Karl Kraus (1977). “No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus”, Frederick Ungar

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• Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhism, Self, Discipline

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