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“We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.”

Source: Why History Matters: Life and Thought

“Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.”

Way Accepting Willing Demand Authority Conscience Consequence Penalties Disobedience Civil Disobedience

Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

“(...) contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists. (...) For many art world insiders and art aficionados of other kinds, concept-driven art is a kind of existencial channel through which they bring meaning to their lives. It demands leaps of faith, but it rewards the believer with a sense of consequence. Moreover, just as churches and other ritualistic meeting places serve a social function, so art events generate a sense of community around shared interests”

“To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.”

Mean Art Artist Moral Morality Demand Consequence Intention Crafts Works Of Art Good Work

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you drink too much, you go out and you harm to somebody, you have to suffer the consequences. Same way with health matters. You don't have the right to demand that someone else take care of you because of your habits.”

Ifs Way Matter Care Suffering Too Much Habit Drink Demand Consequence Take Care Harm

Author:Ron Paul

“There are consequences to our insatiable demands for energy and there are no easy answers for how to capture that energy safely. But even more pressing, since we are currently using nuclear power across the country and the globe, nuclear power plants must be regulated, and we need to be certain that our regulatory bodies are not compromised by their relationships with industry.”

Needs Country Body Certain Energy Easy Answers Industry Demand Consequence Plant Nuclear Capture Globes Insatiable Nuclear Power Power Plants Easy Answers

Author:Ivy Meeropol

“I am not a Jew in the sense that I would demand the preservation of the Jewish or any other nationality as an end in itself. Rather, I see Jewish nationality as a fact and I believe that every Jew must draw the consequences from this fact.”

Believe Ends Facts I Believe Demand Draws Consequence Jew Preservation Nationality

Book:The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The Berlin years, writings, 1918-1921

Source: The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The Berlin years, writings, 1918-1921

“The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.”

“There's an increase in serious weight disorders from cellphone use. And people who don't sleep have serious other consequences for their health that can be associated with it. There may be as well increases in problems with their memory. And all of those things are not as sexy and don't demand as much attention as cancer, but they can be very, very important from a public health point of view.”

People Wells May Important Use Problem Memories Sleep Views Attention Serious Demand Consequence Weight Increase Cancer Sexy Point Of View Disorder Public Health Cellphone

Author:Devra Davis

“Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.”

Ifs Trying Problem Would Be Suffering Demand Solutions Consequence Everyday Performing Everyday Life Coping Solution To A Problem Suffering The Consequences

Book:Social learning theory

Source: Social learning theory