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“A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time we have believed in nothing but the values arising in a mechanized, commercialized, urbanized way of life: it would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live upon this planet.”

Way Wells Long Enough Would Be Faces Values Attitude Conditions Planets Consequence Environmental Inevitable Permanent Doom Enough Time Wrong Attitude

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Now, to a single-minded man, who is either brave enough or reckless enough to surrender himself wholly to one idea, and look neither right nor left, but only forward, what earthly consequences may follow is not material. Persecution strengthens him; and so he is sure he is right, whether his course end in a prison or on a throne is no matter at all. But men of this calibre are uncommon in any age or in any country very uncommon in this age and this country.”

Men Looks May Ideas Ends Country Matter Enough Age Courses Left Materials Consequence Prison Brave Surrender Thrones Persecution Reckless Uncommon

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“If we seriously contemplate life it appears an agony too great to be supported, but for the most part our minds gloss such things over & until the ice finally lets us through we skate about merrily enough. Most people, I'm convinced, don't think about life at all. They grab what they think they want and the subsequent consequences keep them busy in an endless chain till they're carried out feet first.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Mind Firsts Enough Feet Consequence Busy Convinced Endless Ice Chains Contemplating Agony Skates Gloss

Author:Philip Larkin

“There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as no human providence is high enough to give a man a prospect in the end. And in this chain, there are linked together both pleasing and unpleasing events in such manner as he that will do anything for his pleasure must engage himself to suffer all the pains annexed to it.”

Men Giving Humans Long Ends Enough Action Pain Together Suffering Pleasure Events Consequence Chains This Life Providence Linked

Book:The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition

Source: The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition

“The transfer of three shillings and sixpence a day to every labourer would not increase the quantity of meat in the country. There is not at present enough for all to have a decent share. What would then be the consequence?”

Country Enough Three Share Consequence Increase Meat Decent Quantity Transfers Labourers

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here is not infinite in its depth and consequence, but rests on a foundation of spirituality and aesthetics.”

Art Enough Spirituality Art Is Consequence Infinite Foundation Faults Depth Works Of Art Great Work Aesthetics Banality

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“I shun drawing which is too easily formulated. It does not seem fertilized enough to produce consequences, and a drawing should be a provider of consequences.”

Should Doe Enough Seems Produce Consequence Drawing Providers

Author:Rico Lebrun

“We have created a democracy that links us all, and with it come not only opportunities but obligations. There are no gates or walls high enough. There are no bank accounts large enough to buy you and your family and your friends protection from the fear and hunger of those left behind or to isolate you from the consequences of growing social inequities. We are all in this boat together. And the fact that there isn't a hole at your end of the boat doesn't mean you are safe.”

Source: Fanatics & Fools: How Politicians are Betraying the American People

“Unlike any other player on the board, the press has no oversight, no mandate, few penalties, and even fewer consequences. Because there are not enough reporters on the ground, too many bureaus have outsourced both their reporting and standards to third party stringers whose spectacular videos of explosions and inflated body counts have shown up on both jihadist recruiting sites and American television screens, simultaneously.”

“Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.”

World Life Enough Force Simple Brain Middle Consequence Clever Release New World Primitive Caves Terrific

Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“The connectedness of things is what the educator contemplates to the limit of his capacity. No human capacity is great enough to permit a vision of the world as simple, but if the educator does not aim at the vision no one else will, and the consequences are dire when no one does.”

Ifs World Humans Doe Enough Simple Vision Teaching Limits Consequence Capacity Aim Permit Contemplating Educator Connectedness Human Capacity

Author:Mark Van Doren

“Science fiction - and the correct shortcut is 'sf' - uses actual scientific facts or theories for the source ideas or framework of the story. It has some scientific content, however speculative. If it breaks a law of physics, it knows it's doing so and follows up the consequences. If it invents a society of aliens, it does so with some respect for and knowledge of the social sciences and what you might call social probabilities. And some of it is literarily self-aware enough to treat its metaphors as metaphors.”

“We simply argue that climate change consequences was one of the impacts, but interestingly enough, even though a major effort was made in 2008 to try and resurrect the problem over food, now the consequences of the civil war are making the situation even worse.”

Trying Made War Enough Problem Effort Situation Majors Consequence Impact Climate Climate Change Arguing Civil War

Author:Chris Barrie

“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

“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

“You need your freedom. You need to be able to do what you want to do as a journalist, as a person who's speaking for other women as you speak for yourself, and you make a choice. You have to be tough enough to take the consequences of that choice.”

Want Needs Persons Enough Able Choices Speak Tough Consequence What You Want Journalist Your Freedom

Author:Anne Roiphe

“So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.”

Long Enough Action Choices Accepting Consequence Bravery Brave Our Actions Freedom Of Choice Consequences Of Our Actions

Author:Mike Norton

“I remember Anthony Perkins saying, "Real is not necessarily interesting." So real is not enough. But what happens as an actor is that you're really trained to listen and to be open and have empathy. It's such a natural consequence that you end up being more political. You can empathize with the mother whose kids are going to be sent to Iraq, or you can emphasize with the mother who is losing their child to a disease. How could you not then be active? So you're automatically drawn to that aspect in the rest of your life.”

Children Real Ends Enough Happens Kids Remember Political Mother Actors Natural Interesting Disease Losing Empathy Consequence Aspect Iraq Active Rest Of Your Life Natural Consequences

Author:Susan Sarandon

“Donald Trump, like most Americans, like most Republicans, believe in protecting America's core national interests. He believes as do I, as do most Americans, that we aren't yet doing enough to take the fight to the Islamic State.That the intervention in Libya was ill-considered and slapdash at the time. And we're living with the consequences of it now. That we have to get tougher when it comes to our intelligence and law enforcement practices to stop Islamic terrorism.”

“That it is not enough to catch a criminal and get them convicted and so on, because the victim remains with the consequences of the crime. Something needs to be done. Let's complete that process, interact with civil society about this, so that we will specify what is it that we do in the context of that Charter that would then make this positive impact on people who might have been affected by crime.”

People Needs Has Beens Done Enough Might Process Crime Consequence Victim Remains Impact Criminals Affected Might Have Been Civil Society Charter Positive Impact

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“I have a personal staff that helps me scour the internet and other media for the latest scientific peer-reviewed findings, the latest examples of climate-related extreme weather events, and the latest examples of progress. The world is in the midst of a sustainability revolution that has the scope of the industrial revolution, but with the speed of the digital revolution. That's not enough without new laws and the right kind of political leadership. But it does give us a base from which to build a movement that will save us from the most catastrophic consequences of the climate crisis.”

World Giving Kind Enough Helping Political Progress Revolution Internet Consequence Crisis Speed Help Me Sustainability Industrial Revolution

Author:Al Gore

“Here`s my point. I don`t want you to be in a position years from now where you welcome Hillary Clinton and say actually you did win. It just wasn`t close enough to make sure that all the votes were counted or whatever. Elections have consequences. Your vote counts. Your vote has consequences.”

Enough Winning Consequence Vote Election Clinton Welcome

Author:Al Gore

“I live a much better life without having to worry about people chasing me. I spent five years in prison from 21 to 26, which is probably the best part of my youth behind bars. I was in some very bad prisons overseas as well. It was not a fun life, it was a very lonely life in reality. I was a smart enough kid to know that I was going to get caught. The law sometimes sleeps, but the law never dies. I knew it was just a matter of time. I would be caught and I'd get punished and face the consequences.”

People Sometimes Enough Reality Kids Fun Sleep Worry Youth Smart Consequence Lonely Prison Better Life

Author:Frank Abagnale

“Having serious consequences to your decision-making process is something you have to be very comfortable with. It's something you learn and you practise over time, so I encourage people to find some way to challenge themselves. The other thing I share with people, which I've learned over time, is self-confidence. You have to get very comfortable with saying, "Well, every day, I'm just going to give my best. I have skill sets I've learned, I'm going to employ them, and my best is going to be good enough".”

People Giving Enough Challenges Share Serious Consequence Be Good Good Enough

Author:Jeremy Hansen

“If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a good enough imagination. If I fantasise about winning the lottery, it doesn't take long before all sorts of worrisome potential consequences occur to me.”

Ifs Believe Long Hard Enough Might Winning Imagination Millions Lucky Consequence Good Enough Lottery So Lucky Hard To Believe Winning The Lottery

Author:Julian Baggini

“We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.”

Ifs Enough Choices Strong Consequence Everyday Strong Enough

Book:Lord of the Silver Bow

Source: Lord of the Silver Bow

“Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility. As for whether they are ‘valid,’ let them make up their own minds when they are old enough to do so.”

Mind Children Different Enough Draws Consequence Conclusion God Delusion Incompatibility Different Faiths

Author:Richard Dawkins

“She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.”

Men Giving Enough Young Pride Consequence Prejudice Handsome Tolerable Young Ladies Darcy Handsome Men Pride And Prejudice Pride Slighted Pride And Prejudice Book

Book:Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.”

People War Enough Individual Modern Consequence Stress Insanity Collectives Immune Modern War

Book:Brave New World Revisited

Source: Brave New World Revisited

“So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or not, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and wine at your will. Then, in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, to be severely thrashed, and after all of these things, to be defeated.”

“Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.”

“If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.”

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans-and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.”

“That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.”

Enough Desire Wish Regret Consequence Increase Longing Impulse Speakers Defiance Uncontrollable Mortification Deep Regret

Book:The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition

Source: The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition

“One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.”

People Feels Enough Politics Liberty Grace Nice Economic Consequence Notion Being Nice Entitlement

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered.”

Thinking Firsts May Enough Please Consequence Being True Flattery Flattered Flatterer Second Place

Book:The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished