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• Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and technics: they relate, not to external means and consequences, but to internal transformations, and unless it produce these internal transformations the work of art is either perfunctory or dead.

  Lewis Mumford

  Art, Mean, Order

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• We must realize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Web Of Life, World, Serious

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• One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.

  John Edward

  Doe, Ease, Deceiving

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• Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  People, Violence, Movement

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• History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Dream

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• If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.

  James F. Cooper

  Rights, Civilization, Inseparable

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• To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the laws will supersede the Constitution; and, finally, the will of the Executive, by influence of its patronage, will supersede the laws . . .

  John C. Calhoun

  America, Law, Majority

  John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice.

  Dan Millman

  Motivational, Mistake, Mean

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.54, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The transfer is guaranteed to be safe and secure, everyone knows that the transfer has taken place, and nobody can challenge the legitimacy of the transfer. The consequences of this breakthrough are hard to overstate.

  Marc Andreessen

  Taken, Challenges, Safe

  "Why Bitcoin Matters". dealbook.nytimes.com. January 21, 2014.

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• And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.

  Kate Chopin

  Arbitrary, Cost, Moral

  Kate Chopin (2016). “The Awakening”, p.151, Kate Chopin

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• Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

  Washington Allston

  Mind, Distinction, Objects

  Washington Allston (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.167

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• We are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars. We have broken the great conversation. By breaking that conversation we have shattered the universe. All the disasters that are happening now are a consequence of that spiritual 'autism.'

  Thomas Berry

  Spiritual, Stars, Talking

  Thich Nhat Hanh, John Stanley, David Loy, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim (2013). “Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”, p.59, The Golden Sufi Center

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• I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you’ll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed.

  Jordan Belfort

  Giving, Choices, Want

  Jordan Belfort (2007). “The Wolf of Wall Street”, p.98, Bantam

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• Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience has shown that when the protection of public morals is entrusted to its votaries, the consequences are usually appalling.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Passion, Imagination, Asceticism

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• Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. Since these cannot be separated from the human organism and the social scene, the moral ways of man cannot be understood without knowledge of the ways of things and institutions.

  Sidney Hook

  Men, Careers, Way

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• The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public: to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press: but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.

  William Blackstone

  Liberty, Matter, Criminals

  Sir William Blackstone, Joseph Chitty, Edward Christian, John Eykyn Hovenden, Thomas Lee (1861). “Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books, with an analysis of the work”

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• Christianity is realistic because it says that if there is no truth, there is also no hope; and there can be no truth if there is no adequate base. It is prepared to face the consequences of being proved false and say with Paul: If you find the body of Christ, the discussion is finished, let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die. It leaves absolutely no room for a romantic answer.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Hope, Jesus

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• The sea has now changed from its natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.

  George Vancouver

  Ocean, Fall, Sea

  George Vancouver (1798). “A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean: And Round Theworld; in which the Coast of North-west America Has Been Carefully Examined and Accurately Surveyed”, p.210

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• The British government believes we must be resolved to disarming Saddam Hussein. It must be done before the terror weapons he possesses can be used by Saddam himself or by others with his blessing. We must steel ourselves to the consequences of that resolve and send a clear message to Saddam Hussein: You cannot win. You can only comply and disarm or be defeated. The choice is entirely yours.

  Geoff Hoon

  Believe, Blessing, Winning

  "Hoon: 'No hope' without war threat", www.cnn.com. February 24, 2003.

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• Anyone who is contemplating going to Afghanistan does need to think very carefully about the consequences, both to them and their families in terms of the grief they may suffer, as well as contemplate the legal action that might follow on their return, if they were to return.

  Geoff Hoon

  Grief, Thinking, Suffering

  "Attention upsets UK town's Muslims" by Jim Boulden, www.cnn.com. November 5, 2001.

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• It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct — if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.

  W. I. Thomas

  Real, Men, Important

  The Child in America ch. 13 (1928). Coauthored with Dorothy Swaine Thomas.

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• The choices we make can have lasting consequences.

  Joan Bauer

  Choices, Lasting

  Joan Bauer (2005). “Thwonk”, p.109, Penguin

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• The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.

  Steve Berry

  Men, Suffering, Gone

  Steve Berry (2015). “The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle”, p.816, Ballantine Books

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• All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  Real, Observation, Products

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• We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Mean, Government, Self

  Calvin Coolidge (1972). “Calvin Coolidge says: dispatches written by former-president Coolidge and syndicated to newspapers in 1930-1931 : gathered for issuance in book form on the one-hundredth anniversary of Mr. Coolidge's birth, 4 July 1972”

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