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• Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Juice, Excess

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.351

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• When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.

  Jaron Lanier

  People, Identity, Pseudonyms

  "My bright idea: Jaron Lanier". Interview with Aleks Krotoski, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences.

  Spike Lee

  People, Choices, Way

  "Q&A: Spike Lee on 'Oldboy,' Remakes, Atonement & 'Inside Man 2'". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. November 20, 2013.

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• Liberalism has consequences. It has never worked, folks! It has never worked. And it has never fulfilled its promise.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Promise, Folks, Liberalism

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• Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Work, Drug, Abuse

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• We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Past, Numbers, Cnn

  "The Future of the World" by Bjorn Lomborg, www.esquire.com. April 21, 2009.

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• For each of our actions there are only consequences.

  James Lovelock

  Our Actions, Action

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• I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong.

  Norm MacDonald

  Religious, Thinking, Political Opinions

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• More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Mean, Responsibility, Impact

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• If nothing else in life, I want to be true to the things I believe in, and quite simply, to what I'm all about. I know I'd better, because it seems whenever I take a false step or two I feel the consequences.

  Peyton Manning

  Believe, Two, Steps

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• I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.

  Chris Martin

  Beauty, Ugly, Speak

  "The importance of being earnest". Interview with Craig McLean, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2005.

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• You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, World

  "The Circle: A Comedy in Three Acts". Play by W. Somerset Maugham, 1921.

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• Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, Mother, Boys

  Writer's Notebook (1949) p. 27 (written in 1896)

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• As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Years, Victory, Foundation

  Thabo Mbeki's State of the Nation speech in Cape Town, South Africa, www.iol.co.za. February 11, 2005.

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• The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Media, Messages

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

  Marshall McLuhan

  May, Literacy, Schizophrenia

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.327, University of Toronto Press

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• All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

  John Stuart Mill

  Political Revolution, Moral, Opinion

  John Stuart Mill (2009). “Dissertations and Discussions”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

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• As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

  John Stuart Mill

  War, Charity, Matter

  John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill (2015). “Essays on Sex Equality”, p.227, University of Chicago Press

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• It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.

  Moby

  Decision, Matter, Sometimes

  “Amy Winehouse's Death: Moby Remembers Her Final Performance” by Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 25, 2011.

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• If you and I become vegans, the global consequences aren't going to be that much. But if we can get a few hundred million people to become a little more aware and cut back on their animal consumption, the consequences will be great.

  Moby

  Cutting, Animal, People

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• When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage.

  Colin Mochrie

  Trust, Guarantees In Life, Everything Happens For A Reason

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

  Toni Morrison

  Cities, People, Black

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.258, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• People will like to say that 'Eastern Promises' is brutal, but the only reason they say that is because the scenes stick with them. They are realistic. They are in-your-face and you see the consequences. It's not a bunch of quick editing cuts.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Cutting, Editing, People

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• In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Real, India, Inattention

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• It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Advice, Trying, Suggestions

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953”

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