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“But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.”

Faith Consequence

Book:The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

“If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.”

Ifs Life Trying Young Religion Consequence Practicals Backgrounds Conformity Followers Artificial Quests

Book:Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft

Source: Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft

“For each of our actions there are only consequences.”

Action Consequence Our Actions

Author:James Lovelock

“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.”

Thinking Knows Feels Shows Might Political Religious Opinion Possibility Consequence Discussion Uncomfortable Giants Political Opinions

Author:Norm MacDonald

“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.”

“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.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Believe Two Seems I Believe Steps Consequence I Believe In Being True

Author:Peyton Manning

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

Wells Speak Beauty Consequence Ugly

Author:Chris Martin

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

Ifs World Inspirational Can Do This World Positive Thinking Consequence Prepared Human Bondage

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

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

Funny Mother Boys Consequence Misfortunes Affectionate

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“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.”

Years Firsts Next Victory Ten Consequence Foundation Decades Firm Firm Foundation

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.”

Thinking Ends Beautiful Consequence

Author:Lynda Barry

“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.”

Social Results Technology Media Messages Consequence Affair Scales Mediums Extensions New Technology

Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.”

May Consequence Literacy Schizophrenia

Book:The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

“Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.”

Thinking Life Inspirational Littles Sometimes Motivational Choices Positive Thinking Habit Discipline Consequence Addiction Little Things Tempted Enviromental Inspirational Wisdom

Author:Bruce Barton

“Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.”

Has Beens Motivational Action Known Consequence Errors Committed Planning Folly Public Life

Author:Bernard Baruch

“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.”

Political Moral Opinion Revolution Consequence Institutions Affected Conquest Subversion Political Revolution

Book:Dissertations and Discussions

Source: Dissertations and Discussions

“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.”

Persons War Matter Effects Consequence Concerned Ultimate Charity

Book:Essays on Sex Equality

Source: Essays on Sex Equality

“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.”

Sometimes Matter Easy My Own Decision Circumstances Consequence Responsible Fingers Tragic Addict Benign

Author:Moby

“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.”

People Ifs Littles Animal Millions Cutting Hundred Consequence Vegan Consumption

Author:Moby

“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.”

Knows World Littles Happens Stage Trust Consequence Work Out Guarantees Going To Work Everything Happens For A Reason Improvising Trust No One Guarantees In Life

Author:Colin Mochrie

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

People Doe Social Black Cities Economy Policy Consequence Concern Planning Black People Social Policy City Planning

Book:Conversations with Toni Morrison

Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison

“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.”

People Reason Faces Cutting Promise Scene Consequence Sticks Bunch Your Face Realistic Brutal Editing Eastern

Author:Viggo Mortensen

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

Real Consequence India Spots Drivers Pedestrians Inattention Jeopardize

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.”

Thinking Way Long Voice Happened Consequence Complaining Employee Frustrated Workplace Discontent Dilbert

Author:Scott Adams

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

Trying Easy Advice Consequence Suggestions Natural Consequences Pandit

Book:Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953

Source: Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953

“We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.”

Thinking Needs Important Certain Special Consequence Prejudice Mindset Get Away Frightened Need To Get Away

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.”

Humans Seems Sin Consequence Intention

Book:Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)

Source: Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)

“There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.”

May War Political Results Situation Civilization Consequence Tyranny Imperfect Aggression Historic Inheritance Refusal

Book:Love and Justice: Selections from the Shorter Writings of Reinhold Niebuhr

Source: Love and Justice: Selections from the Shorter Writings of Reinhold Niebuhr

“Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.”

Kind Seems Literature Conditions Produce Losing Conscious Consequence Manners Novelists Bad Manners

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“The only solution to the violence problem in America is a return to traditional parental involvement. This should be encouraged by every elected official. Also, the abandonment and neglect of children by their parents should have civil consequences.”

“'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not only of poor and immigrant workers but of their young children in factories and mills - and as the consequence of race hatred in the aftermath of the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves.”

“But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.”

People Ifs Care Millions Health Cost Consequence Increase Health Care Reports Margins

Author:Barack Obama

“Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.”

Consequence Determined I Am Determined

Author:James Otis

“The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there are no terrible consequences in knitting.”

Differences Mistake Terrible Consequence Bigger Faster Knitting Knitters

Author:Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.”

Pain Motivation Causes Enemy Fields Battle Degrees Consequence Defeat Acres

Book:THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…

Source: THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…

“The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.”

Soul Matter Feelings Lost Consequence Immortality Indifferent

Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

“The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.”

Pain Lying Desire Responsibility Accepting Behavior Consequence Difficulty Accepting Responsibility

Book:The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

“Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.”

Air Consequence Flow Instruments Intention Confined Good Intentions Mesh

Author:Mike Pence

“Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.”

Thinking Want Ends Young Actors Sex Roles Scene Consequence Agree Stranger Embarrassing Nudity Family Friends Young Actors

Author:Natalie Portman

“Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.”

Men Humans Wells Made States Natural Rights Duty Protect Consequence Crisis Human Rights Population Humanitarian Graves Primaries Violation Violation Of Human Rights

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with profound consequences for inter-communal relations, political rhetoric and policies at the local, regional, national and international level.”

Political Levels Policy Conflict Consequence Relation Profound International Locals Tension Phenomenon Rhetoric Mistrust Political Rhetoric

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.”

Thinking Knows Important Stories Beautiful Film Choices Truth Is Cost Consequence Thirds Scary Cinema Theme Larry Andrew Motifs

Author:Keanu Reeves

“If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive.”

Ifs Jobs Past Opportunity Social Support Creation Consequence Safety Trade Thrive Agreement Assistance Adjustment New Job Safety Net Job Creation Trade Agreements

Author:Susan Rice

“Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.”

Mean Process Taught Consequence Following Genes Right Time Right Place Good Genes

Book:The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

Source: The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

“I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.”

Ifs Mean Persons Law Pay Divine Consequence Built Laws Of Nature Retribution

Author:Pat Robertson

“Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.”

Want Country Evil Natural Justice Principles Virtue Democracy Consequence Terror Fierce Severe Prompts Natural Consequences Pressing On

Author:Maximilien Robespierre

“If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.”

Ifs Love Friendship Judging Consequence Hatred Broken Heart Friendship Love

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.”

Done Virtue Consequence Repentance Remorse

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.”

“Third, we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade, there will be unmistakable consequences.”

America Nations Consequence Thirds Trade Agreement Cheat Forging Trade Agreements

Author:Mitt Romney