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“It is impossible to forsee the consequences of being clever.”

“I think it's very important, and I think that what young people will learn from my experience is that even presidents have to do that and there are consequences when you don't. But I also think that there will be a box score, and there will be that one negative, and then there will be the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times when the record will show that I did not abuse my authority as president, that I was truthful with the American people.”

People Thinking Important Shows Young President Records Authority Consequence Negative Abuse Boxes Score Truthful

Author:William J. Clinton

“I'd break out in hives if I had to sing (`Stairway to Heaven') in every show. I wrote those lyrics and found that song to be of some importance and consequence in 1971, but 17 years later, I don't know. It's just not for me. I sang it at the Atlantic Records show because I'm an old softie and it was my way of saying thank you to Atlantic because I've been with them for 20 years. But no more of `Stairway to Heaven' for me.”

Ifs Knows Way Years Shows Song Found Heaven Break Records Consequence Importance My Way Break Out Saying Thank You Hives Stairways Stairway To Heaven

Author:Robert Plant

“We in the west walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the cold war and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again there will be consequences.”

Ifs War Ends Country Left Cold Consequence West Teeth Afghanistan Cold War Devastated

Author:Bob Ainsworth

“In my judgement, when the United States says there will be serious consequences, and if there isn't serious consequences, it creates adverse consequences.”

Ifs States United United States Serious Consequence Judgement Adverse Funny Bush

Author:George W. Bush

“People try to live their lives without consequences and end up living lives of no consequence.”

People Trying Ends Consequence Live Life

Author:George W. Buck

“Many of our actions degrade our habitat because we undertake them in order to reach goals whose allure blinds us to myriad dire consequences. In order to fuel our complex civilizations, we are lacing our planet's atmosphere with carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that, if it has not already begun doing so, will soon warm the Ice Age climate to which we owe our very existence.”

“Nothing comes into being without a cause and when all the conditions are created, there is nothing that can prevent the consequence.”

Causes Conditions Consequence

Book:The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus

Source: The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus

“Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.”

Art Philosophy Lasts Fine Art Is Consequence Fine Arts

Author:Max Bill

“No matter how frustrated you may feel, there is always a way out. In every situation that arises, we choose to be powerful or powerless. It may not always feel like it, but it is a choice. And there are consequences for these choices in terms of the results we get, and the subsequent increase or decrease in our power and influence. If we choose powerlessness, it is often because we doubt there is any other option.”

Ifs Way Feels May Matter Choices Term Results Powerful Situation Doubt Influence Consequence Increase Arise Frustrated Powerless Decrease Powerlessness There Is Always A Way

Author:Blaine Lee Pardoe

“What really gets me is this - it's very ironic that those who are most critical of extra tax are those who are most vociferous in demanding extra expenditure. What gets me even more is that having demanded that extra expenditure they are not prepared to face the consequences of their own action and stand by the necessity to get the tax to pay for it. I wish some of them had a bit more guts and courage than they have.”

Action Faces Wish Bits Pay Taxes Consequence Prepared Critical Extras Guts Ironic Taxation Expenditures

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.”

Objects Consequence Photograph

Author:Dorothea Lange

“Photography is solitary and there are lags between seeing with your eyes and seeing through the lens, and then seeing the image on your computer... I often see things after the fact. So there’s a revelatory quality. And this definitely includes a sense of playfulness, because you’re not sure what the consequences are going to be.”

Facts Eye Quality Seeing Computer Photography Consequence Not Sure Solitary Lenses Playfulness Lag

Author:Christian Marclay

“You must show how gruesome that death is because if you don't, then you turn into some kind of comic book and pain, then death, doesn't have a consequence, and pain doesn't have a consequence.”

Ifs Kind Book Shows Pain Turns Consequence Comic Comic Book

Author:Joe Eszterhas

“Part of the popularity with Louis Farrakhan has less to do with the content of his message and more to do with the form that he portrays himself - as being a free, black person who speaks what is on his mind with boldness and fearlessness. Who is willing to pay the consequences.”

Mind Persons Form Speak Black Pay Willing Messages Consequence Popularity Boldness Fearlessness Black Person

Author:Cornel West

“In general, in America, every discourse in literature in 15 minutes degenerates into a conversation about ethics, morality and this and that. The Holocaust and the consequences of it. Well, I find it terribly boring, predictable and unimportant, because what matters about literature is esthetic achievement.”

Wells Matter America Literature Minutes Morality Conversation Achievement Ethics Consequence Boring Holocaust What Matters Discourse Predictable Unimportant Degenerates

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“I think I have quite traditional views on original sin, grace, and the real but difficult nature of we humans being able to learn something true about being human that we didn't know before. And yet the consequences of this traditional view are really quite radical.”

Thinking Knows Humans Real Able Difficult Sin Views Grace Consequence Originals Traditional Radical Being Human Original Sin

Author:James Alison

“[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.”

Information Cost Benefits Consequence Doctrine Analysis Ignored Chapel Taj Mahal Sistine Chapel Mahal Cost Benefit Analysis

Author:Antonin Scalia

“If you knowingly and willingly embark on criminal behaviour, the consequences of that should be... that you lose some of your benefits under the current system”

Ifs Should Loses Benefits Consequence Currents Criminals Behaviour

Author:Iain Duncan Smith

“I forget, is freedom of speech when it's legal to say what you want or is it when it has no consequences for some reason?”

Want Reason Forget Speech Consequence What You Want Freedom Of Speech

Author:Eugene Mirman

“Most importantly, postmodernism comes down on the side of photography and power, not photography as power. As a consequence, photography continues to be conceived as an inconsequential vehicle or passage for real powers that always originate elsewhere.”

Real Sides Photography Consequence Passages Vehicle Elsewhere Postmodernism Real Power Inconsequential

Author:Geoffrey Batchen

“The question is not whether a picture is good, in some formal, technical sense, but, does it mean what I need it to mean? Writers can edit sentences that may be well-crafted but that don't express an intended thought. But in photography, there are no revisions: A photograph is in or it's out, and the photographer must live with the consequences of his or her choices.”

Needs Wells May Mean Doe Choices Photography Consequence Photographer Photograph Sentences Formal Edits Revision

Author:Thomas Roma

“Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal consequences.... Photography's ambiguity, beautiful in one context, can be devastating in another.”

Beautiful Ability Fiction Quality Photography Consequence Compelling Severe Ambiguity Blur Misused

Author:Taryn Simon

“I want to help you "fly right" in the gathering storms of the last days. You are the pilots. You are responsible to think about the consequences of every choice you make. Your righteous choices will keep you from getting off course.”

Thinking Want Helping Lasts Choices Courses Consequence Responsible Storm Pilots Righteous Gathering Last Day Choices You Make

Author:Robert D. Hales

“Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It's simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death.”

Men Long Enough Given Waiting Realizing Natural Consequence Perfection Eternity Lifetime Sand Diamond Coal Pearls Reminders Apes Natural Consequences

Book:The rule of four

Source: The rule of four

“Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking.”

Given Ability Risk Willing Offers Behavior Capable Consequence Guarantees Courageous Willingness Risk-taking Adverse

Author:Alfred Adler

“One thing is certain: the humility of faith, if it is followed by the proper consequences-by the acceptance of the work and sacrifice demanded by our providential task-will do far more to launch us into the full current of historical reality than the pompous rationalizations of politicians who think they are somehow the directors and manipulators of history.”

Ifs Thinking Reality Certain One Thing Sacrifice Acceptance Humility Politician Directors Consequence Tasks Historical Currents Pompous Manipulator

Author:Thomas Merton

“I like fashion. My mum was a dressmaker, believe it or not, so the consequence of that was that all my clothes were homemade, and I looked like a terrible mess until I was old enough to buy my own. But I love good tailoring.”

Believe Enough My Own Fashion Terrible Clothes Consequence Mess Mum Homemade

Author:Jason Statham

“Peace comes when there is no cloud between us and God. Peace is the consequence of forgiveness, God's removal of that which obscures His face and so breaks union with Him.”

Faces Break Consequence Unions Clouds Removal

Author:Charles Brent

“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”

Firsts Motivational Happiness Freedom Accepting Steps Happened Acceptance Consequence Overcoming Adversity Misfortunes First Steps Elderly Overcoming Hardship

Author:William James

“I believe that it is truly important for everyone to confront in dialogue the historical reality of the Reformation, its consequences and the responses it elicited. Catholics and Lutherans can ask forgiveness for the harm they have caused one another and for their offenses committed in the sight of God. Together we can rejoice in the longing for unity which the Lord has awakened in our hearts, and which makes us look with hope to the future.”

“Natural Selection is not Evolution. Yet, ever since the two words have been in common use, the theory of Natural Selection has been employed as a convenient abbreviation for the theory of Evolution by means of Natural Selection, put forward by Darwin and Wallace. This has had the unfortunate consequence that the theory of Natural Selection itself has scarcely ever, if ever, received separate consideration.”

Ifs Mean Has Beens Two Use Natural Common Theory Evolution Consequence Consideration Unfortunate Employed Selection Convenient Natural Selection Theory Of Evolution Abbreviations

Author:Ronald Fisher

“The manufactured consensus of the IPCC has had the unintended consequences of distorting the science, elevating the voices of scientists that dispute the consensus, and motivating actions by the consensus scientists and their supporters that have diminished the public's trust in the IPCC.”

Action Voice Consequence Scientist Supporter Disputes Consensus Elevating Unintended Consequences

Author:Judith Curry

“A couple degrees warmer would be good for humanity and planet, especially with more plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide in the air. [...] But a couple degrees colder would bring serious adverse consequences for habitats, wildlife, agriculture and humanity."”

Would Be Humanity Air Planets Serious Couple Degrees Consequence Plant Be Good Agriculture Carbon Wildlife Adverse Habitat Carbon Dioxide

Author:Paul Driessen

“In any event, it has never been true that we ignore mainstream science; and anyone who reads AEI publications closely can see that we are not 'skeptics' about warming. It is possible to accept the general consensus about the existence of global warming while having valid questions about the extent of warming, the consequences of warming, and the appropriate responses.”

Existence Accepting Events Consequence Response Global Warming Appropriate Mainstream Consensus Publication Skeptic

Author:Steven F. Hayward

“These proven positive consequences of elevated CO2 are infinitely more important than the unsubstantiated predictions of apocalypse that are hypothesized to result from global warming, which itself, may not be occurring from rising atmospheric CO2 levels. The aerial fertilization effect of atmospheric CO2 enrichment is the only aspect of global environmental change about which we can be certain; and to restrict CO2 emissions is to assuredly deny the biosphere the many benefits that accrue from this phenomenon.”

“Climate change hype has grave real world consequences. It gets rich countries to adopt silly policies and to impose devastating eco-imperialism on poor countries. The world's rich millions can afford environmental extremism; its poor billions can't. Climate change pseudo-science about human causality has been exposed repeatedly. What's less appreciated is that there aren't more natural disasters in need of an explanation.”

“Although it is important to examine the consequences of today's actions far into the future, it is important not to confuse far future actions with what is done today. The impact of emissions that are made after 2100 has no bearing on what the world should do for the next 30 or even 100 years.”

World Should Years Made Important Done Today Action Next Consequence Impact Emissions

Author:Robert O. Mendelsohn

“Several renowned scientists have been predicting for some time that the world could enter a period of cooling right around now, with consequences that could be dire.”

World Has Beens Periods Consequence Scientist Predicting Cooling Renowned

Author:Lawrence Solomon

“By empowering people to initiate a conversation prior to surgery regarding their pain control options, we hope to reduce the incidence of narcotic addiction and all of the unfortunate consequences that surround it.”

People Pain Conversation Consequence Addiction Empowering Surround Unfortunate Surgery Initiate Narcotics Incidence

Author:Kristi Funk

“Any prediction worth its weigh would consider the spiritual, material, and unintended consequences of introducing a new technology to the world. It would proceed from the kind of understanding Chellis articulated: Life is Whole.”

World Kind Whole Spiritual Life Is Understanding Technology Materials Consequence Introducing Worth It Predictions New Technology Unintended Consequences

Author:Stephanie Mills

“Given all that history has shown us of the consequences of technology - from the atlatl spear to the A-bomb - why have so few groups of human beings managed to resist the incursions of technology? Or be choosy about the extent to which they'll employ a technological innovation?”

Humans Given Human Beings Technology Groups Consequence Innovation Bombs Technological Spears Choosy

Author:Stephanie Mills

“A deep analysis judges technology morally - from its conception and intention to the totality of its consequences, knowing that all "raw materials" once were someone's home or sustenance, that extraction and manufacture at industrial scale reduce landscapes and their human beings, that distribution, employment, and disposal of technologies change lives in unpredictable ways.”

“When leaders carry out policies for decades that have no consequences for the stated goal and are very costly, you have to ask whether they are telling you the truth or whether the policies are for a different goal, because they are not reducing drug use.”

Different Use Asks Goal Leader Policy Drug Consequence Decades Reducing Drug Use

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I'm just worried about the unintended consequences of the laws.”

Law Consequence Worried Unintended Consequences

Author:Mary Katharine Ham

“I think Pakistan was not a factor in terms of decision India to obtain nuclear weapon. Because there was no talk of Pakistan having any capability. The main factor was China. And the international prestige that China was getting as a consequence of having its own nuclear weapons.”

Thinking Term Decision Weapons Consequence India International China Nuclear Factors Capability Nuclear Weapons Pakistan Prestige

Author:Subramanian Swamy

“The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one arm or the other of the criminal justice system. These are the continuing consequences of slavery.”

“The most common way people could do time-travel would be a form of meditation in which you don't get caught up in your thoughts and don't make patterns of logical consequences follow as a result of your thinking process. It's very hard for most of us to do that if we think about it. But if you start to watch the process by which things come into being, and you begin to witness from the point of view of watching the words form, then you're beginning to move into the non-temporal mindset, or that which is free of time.”

“Bargains are the holy grail of the true stockpicker. The fact that 10 to 30 percent of our net worth is lost in a market sell-off is of little consequence. We see the latest correction not as a disaster but as an opportunity to acquire more shares at low prices. This is how great fortunes are made over time.”

Littles Made Facts Opportunity Lost Share Holy Lows Percent Consequence Sells Fortune Disaster Acquire Bargains Corrections Holy Grail Net Worth

Book:Beating the Street

Source: Beating the Street

“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.”

Firsts Country Shows Courses Consequence Destruction Corruption Wit Our Country Steady Power Corrupts Consolidation

Author:Thomas Jefferson

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