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“Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.”

Home Motivation Bits Clear Terrible Behavior Consequence Tests Harder Motivated Buried Labs Bad Behavior Control Ourselves

Author:Ben Marcus

“To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling unforeseen consequences.”

Would Be Clear Consequence Solve Global Warming Unforeseen Techno Geoengineering

Author:Jamais Cascio

“It is quite clear from what has been said and written that, time after time after time, there has been a conspiracy between the Conservative Front Bench in this House and the inbuilt Conservative majority in the House of Lords to defeat legislation that has passed through the House of Commons... I warn the House of Lords of the consequences... it is our strong view that the House of Lords should recall that its role is not that of a wrecking chamber, but of a revising chamber. In recent weeks, it has been wrecking legislation passed by this House.”

“I believe in collaboration, which is why I work with others to make positive contributions of consequence, and why I have made a very clear and unwavering commitment to remain absolutely apolitical.”

Believe Made I Believe Clear Commitment Consequence I Believe In Contribution Collaboration Unwavering Apolitical

Author:Cliff Curtis

“We can at least see that the question is asked, and asked on the basis of a clear recognition that there is no way of manipulating our environment that is without cost or consequence - and thus also of a recognition that we are inextricably bound up with the destiny of our world. There is no guarantee that the world we live in will "tolerate" us indefinitely if we prove ourselves unable to live within its constraints.”

“Unless we take care to clear the first principles of knowledge from the incumbrance and delusion of words, we may make infinite reasonings upon them to no purpose. We may deduce consequences, and never be the wiser.”

Firsts May Care Purpose Principles Clear Consequence Infinite Take Care Reasoning Delusion Wiser

Book:Berkeley

Source: Berkeley

“Greece's debts are all denominated in euros, but it isn't clear who holds how much of those debts. For that reason, the consequences of a national bankruptcy would be incalculable. Greece is just as systemically important as a major bank.”

Important Reason Would Be Clear Majors Consequence Debt Greece Bankruptcy Euro

Author:Wolfgang Schauble

“Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products... We trust as a consequence of that, people will like them, and as another consequence, we'll make some money. But we're really clear about what our goals are.”

People Goal Clear Design Products Consequence Making Money Apples

Author:Steve Jobs

“In order not to be misunderstood, I want it perfectly clear that I believe it is incumbent on us to conduct our lives in a way that takes into account all the consequences of our actions, including the consequences to other people, and the consequences to the environment.”

People Way Want Believe Action Order I Believe Clear Environment Our Lives Consequence Accounts Including Misunderstood Our Actions Incumbents Consequences Of Our Actions

Author:Michael Crichton

“In stories, everything has to have clear consequences and everything has to focus to the end. Everything at the end will give meaning to everything that precedes. In my own life, the consequences of the choices I've made aren't always very clear. The most beautiful things are sometimes not totally truthful, and the end will not give more meaning to everything that precedes.”

Giving Made Ends Sometimes Stories Beautiful Choices My Own Clear Focus Consequence Truthful Beautiful Things My Own Life

Author:Jaco Van Dormael

“Disturbingly, the First Amendment, along with the Fourth Amendment - protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures, and requiring warrants - have been the major casualties of the shift in government policy in the last two decades. Unfortunately, I think that the biggest consequences of this tragedy won't be clear until it is far, far too late.”

“The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.”

Suffering Individual Nations Cities Lord Clear Failing Discipline Consequence Heed

Book:Turning the Tide: Real Hope, Real Change

Source: Turning the Tide: Real Hope, Real Change

“Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose.”

Winning Loses Technology Clear Consequence Unforeseen

Author:Neil Postman

“Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests then are so clear that speeches are effortlessly drawn, but at present neither the facts nor the consequences are sufficiently clear to make oratory legitimate. This is the kind of war that will wind on and make fools of its partisans and opponents both.”

Thinking Kind War States Facts Government Interest Common Leader Clear Wind Revolution Fool Speech Consequence Opponents Founding Great Leader Partisans Oratory Common Interests

Book:A Soldier of the Great War

Source: A Soldier of the Great War

“Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which, for various reasons having to do with emotional safety, we have very strong ties of whose meaning and consequences in actuality we have no clear understanding.”

Ideas Reason Certain Strong Understanding Clear Emotional Products Habit Consequence Safety Various Ideology Ties Ritual Formulas Very Strong Actuality

Book:The Liberal Imagination

Source: The Liberal Imagination

“I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem to be qualitatively different. Geometry was the first exciting course I remember. Instead of memorizing facts, we were asked to think in clear, logical steps. Beginning from a few intuitive postulates, far reaching consequences could be derived, and I took immediately to the sport of proving theorems.”