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“To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to ... for all we individuals to have ... our choices.”

Mean Reality Action Choices Individual Community Forget Consequence Abstract Concrete Our Choices Actions Have Consequences

Author:China Mieville

“There is a gentle absurdity about Washington, D.C., and it is easy to develop affection for the place, if you can forget that the consequences of what goes on there are real, whereas what goes on there may not be.”

Ifs May Real Easy Forget Goes On Consequence Affection Gentle Absurdity

Book:And so it goes

Source: And so it goes

“The education system today makes and educated person selfish. It makes that person a slave to the senses and as a consequence the person forgets their own divine nature.”

Persons Today Forget Divine Consequence Slave Educational Selfish Senses Educated Education System Divine Nature Educated Person

Author:Sai Baba

“There is consequence of our forgetting who we are. Forgetting that we're able to create our environment, from our health to economy to war. Something can be done about everything we perceive as bad, if we so choose. If we are aware of the concept of compassion.”

Ifs War Done Able Forget Compassion Economy Environment Concepts Consequence Perceive Who We Are Our Environment

Author:Alanis Morissette

“However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.”

Men May Evil Forget Virtue Path Middle Morality Consequence Extremes Beneficial Immorality Two Extremes Middle Path

Book:The Limits of State Action

Source: The Limits of State Action

“I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred thousand crowns a year; my vow of obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince." - I forget the consequences of his vow of chastity.”

Years Given Forget Poverty Heard Thousand Hundred Consequence Raised Obedience Frank Confession Crowns Sovereign Vow Chastity

Book:THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“I forget, is freedom of speech when it's legal to say what you want or is it when it has no consequences for some reason?”

Want Reason Forget Speech Consequence What You Want Freedom Of Speech

Author:Eugene Mirman

“I think people are more in contact now with the consequences of war than they've been for a very long time. And that's what amazes me when sometimes politicians seem to forget their history. They don't look and re-learn about what has happened before. Maybe they haven't got the memory, maybe they're already too young, but you can see how we become puffed up, and how we as a nation rise so quickly if we're not careful.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Long War Sometimes Seems Young Nations Memories Forget Happened Havens Politician Long Time Consequence Careful Contact

Author:Michael Morpurgo

“I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.”

World Real Government Individual Decision Forget Consequence Strive Real World

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.”

Believe Forget Moral Principles Dangerous Politician Ethics Consequence Foundation Karma Believe In God Trust In God Rulers Wise Man Once Said Moral Principles I Believe In Karma

Author:Dalai Lama

“The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.”

Want Facts Lasts Forget Members Mass Consequence What You Want Enormous Propaganda Slogans Want Him Harps Mein Kampf Receptivity

Author:Adolf Hitler

“There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any length of time without solitude is even worse. I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in pieces. I must have time alone in which to mull over my encounter, and to extract its juice, its essence, to understand what has really happened to me as a consequence of it.”

Source: From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton

“Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.”

Mean Forget Teach Students Discipline Consequence Disciple Really Mean

Book:The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

Source: The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

“Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.”

Source: The Psychology of Winning for Women: What Every Woman Needs to Know, what Every Man Needs to Understand

“Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.”

Way Looks Forget Consequence Baseball Misfortunes Panic

Author:Walter Alston

“Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment, is like the answer to the question whether or not we shall be struck down by a dread disease: "it's all a matter of luck." It is important to keep this in mind, for people almost always forget it, with consequences in human intolerance and unnecessary suffering that are incalculable.”

“It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much ... to forget it”

Source: Writings