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“Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.”

Wells Matter Dies Building Consequence Built Mere What Matters

Author:Muriel Barbery

“Society is built on marriage ... marriage and its consequences.”

Marriage Consequence Built

Author:John Galsworthy

“Words have consequences, and I judge people not only by their words but what they do. And if you look at people who have a pattern, who've built a career out of dividing people and who built a career out of often not just Obama but finding ways to degrade and diminish African-Americans and African-American leaders. It's racist to consistently make your living on the backs of black people.”

People Ifs Way Looks Black Leader Careers Judging Findings Consequence Built Patterns African American Racist Black People Consistently Diminish Living On Degrade Dividing

Author:Joan Walsh Anglund

“Telephone handsets are particularly in need of built-in security. We have almost every aspect of our personal and work lives reflected on them and we lose them all the time. We leave them in taxis. We leave them on airplanes. The consequences of one of these devices falling into the wrong hands are very, very serious.”

Needs Hands Fall Loses Security Serious Consequence Built Aspect Devices Airplane Telephones Taxi

Author:Matt Blaze

“I don't think that anything of any consequence is known a priori: all our knowledge is built up by modifying the lore passed on to us by our ancestors in light of our experiences, and the best a philosopher can do is to learn as much about what has been discovered in various empirical fields, and use it to try to craft an improved synthesis.”

Thinking Trying Has Beens Use Light Can Do Known Fields Consequence Built Philosopher Various Crafts Ancestor Synthesis Modifying

Author:Philip Kitcher

“The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the United States for much of the 20th century were difficult to overcome. But that actually has occurred. And the cooperation, trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to the United States.”

“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

“Life is not made of atoms,it is merely built out of them. What life is actually 'made of' is cycles of cause and effect, loops of causal flow. These phenomenon are just as real as atoms - perhaps even more real. If anything, the entire universe is actually made from events, of which atoms are merely some of the consequences.”

Ifs Made Real Life Is Universe Causes Effects Events Consequence Built Flow Cycles Phenomenon Atoms Cause And Effect Loops

Book:Creation: Life and How to Make It

Source: Creation: Life and How to Make It

“Live, or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are, I've assigned myself a new obligation. I'm going to stop undoing, deconstructing, I'm going to start building. What matters is what you are doing when you die... I want to be building.”

Want Wells Matter Dies Building Consequence Built Mere Obligation What Matters Undoing

Author:Muriel Barbery