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• Its a consequence of the experience of science. As you learn more and more about the universe, you find you can understand more and more without any reference to supernatural intervention, so you lose interest in that possibility. Most scientists I know dont care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists. And that, I think, is one of the great things about science-that it has made it possible for people not to be religious.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, Atheist, Thinking

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• But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and that the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand them.

  Hugh MacLennan

  Simple, Night, Tragedy

  Hugh MacLennan (2009). “Watch that Ends the Night”, p.266, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• It is now up to us to see that we embark on the next stage leading to political unity, which I think is the consequence of economic unity, so that Europe can in the future also play a political role on the international stage, leading even as far as a common defence policy.

  Jacques Santer

  Thinking, Europe, Play

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• Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.

  Tim Wise

  Ignorance, Race, White Privilege

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• The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains represents an...evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer lasting than any past examples of violence inflicted by men against thier fellow human beings.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Past, Men, Agriculture

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• Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Lying, Liars, Coward

  "Science of Survival". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, 1951.

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• Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education.

  Maria Montessori

  Method, Concentration, Parts Of Life

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• If we humans are good at anything, it’s thinking we’ve got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance.

  David Suzuki

  Ignorance, Thinking, Ideas

  David Suzuki, Ian Hanington (2012). “Everything Under the Sun: Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet”, p.53, Greystone Books

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• Do your best and forget the consequences.

  Walter Alston

  Forget

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• Some of this is unavailable to the male-female union: there is more likely to be greater understanding of the need for extramarital outlets between two men than between a man and a woman; and again, the lack of children gives gay couples greater freedom. Their failures entail fewer consequences for others. But something of the gay's relationship's necessary honesty, its flexibility, and its equality could undoubtedly help strengthen and inform many heterosexual bonds.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Honesty, Couple, Children

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• Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct.

  Lewis Gordon

  Decision, Tides, Instinct

  "Achieving The Impossible". Book by Lewis Gordon Pugh, 2010.

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• If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn’t being political, it is being selfish.

  Phil Jones

  Selfish, Political, Climate

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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.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Science, Groups, Scientist

  1970 In the NewYork Review of Books, 18 Nov.

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• The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Metrics, Revolution, Metric System

  Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”

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• Things always work out for me because I do whatever I want without worrying about the consequences.

  Tucker Max

  Work Out, Worry, Max

  Tucker Max (2012). “Hilarity Ensues”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.

  Ti-Grace Atkinson

  Saying Less, Brutal, One Thing

  Ti-Grace Atkinson (1974). “Amazon odyssey”

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• The freedom and human capacities of individuals must be developed to their maximum but individual powers must be linked to democracy in the sense that social betterment must be the necessary consequence of individual flourishing.

  Henry Giroux

  Democracy, Individual Power, Social

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• The Earth is a living, breathing entity. Without ongoing care and nurturing, there will be consequences too big to ignore.

  David Holmgren

  Breathing, Ongoing, Earth

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• My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of a set of assumptions or hypotheses, preparing the way for a decision or an insight.

  J. C. R. Licklider

  Science, Men, Thinking

  "In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990".

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• We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding the consequences of actions.

  Al-Jahiz

  Intelligent, Understanding, Action

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• The bad economist sees only what immediately strikes the eye; the good economist also looks beyond. The bad economist sees only the direct consequences of a proposed course; the good economist looks also at the longer and indirect consequences. The bad economists sees only what the effect of a given policy has been or will be on one particular group; the good economist inquires also what the effect of the policy will be on all groups

  Henry Hazlitt

  Eye, Groups, Looks

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.12, Crown Business

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• We can only escape from the world by outgrowing the world. Death may take man out of the world but only wisdom can take the world out of the man. As long as the human being is obsessed by worldliness, he will suffer from the Karmic consequences of false allegiances. When however, worldliness is transmuted into Spiritual Integrity he is free, even though he still dwells physically among worldly things.

  Manly Hall

  Spiritual, Integrity, Men

  Manly Palmer Hall (1949). “Horizon”

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• Everything we do has consequences.

  Dennis Potter

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• I'm willing to deal with the consequences and accept responsibility for my actions.

  Michael Vick

  Responsibility, Action, Accepting

  "Vick Sentenced to 23 Months for Conspiracy". www.npr.org. December 10, 2007.

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• Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment in which each was tested and to some degree found wanting. [...] The consequences of the journey change the voyager so much more than the embarking or the arrival.

  Murray Kempton

  Commitment, Journey, Degrees

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