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“The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd years until at some imperceptible moment, by the some mysterious chemistry, energies were refreshed, ideas broke out of the mold of the Middle Ages into new realms, and humanity found itself redirected.”

Years Ideas Moments Age Humanity Next Found Energy Grows Middle Century Consequence Mysterious Broke Odd Realms Fifty Chemistry Disorder Middle Ages Mold

Author:Barbara Tuchman

“If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later.”

Ifs Stills Grows Results Break Consequence Bigger Painful Breaking Down Breakdown

Book:The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future

Source: The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future

“I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with Nature and with men. And when you take weeds out of a garden it gives you room to grow flowers. So, every time I lost a little self-satisfaction, or arrogance, I could plant some broadness or love of my own in its place, and after a while the garden of my mind began to bloom and be fragrant and I found myself better equipped for my work and more useful to others as a consequence.”

“In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot look at history, or at any human action, except as I look at the individual.) The Greeks had good food, good witty talk, pleasant dinner parties; and they were content. When the individual man had reached that condition in Athens, when the thought not of giving to the state but of what the state could give to him, Athens' freedom was doomed.”

“I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.”

Thinking Made Moments Action Grows Parent Responsibility Growing Up Our Lives Consequence Blame Mess Our Actions Consequences Of Our Actions

Book:Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You

Source: Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You

“Evil grows and bears fruit, which is understandable, because it has logic and probability on its side and also, of course, strength. The resistance of tiny kernels of good, to which no one grants the power of causing far-reaching consequences, is entirely mysterious, however. Such seeming nothingness not only lasts but contains within itself enormous energy which is revealed gradually.”

Lasts Courses Evil Energy Grows Sides Bears Consequence Logic Fruit Tiny Enormous Resistance Mysterious Reaching Grants Nothingness Probability Seeming Kernel

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“You will learn and grow according to the nature and consequences of your actions.”

Action Grows Consequence Mentoring

Book:The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence

Source: The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence

“If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.”

Ifs Home Action Grows Growing Up Consequence Strategy Impulse Predictable

Author:David Brooks

“I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person”

Thinking Should Persons Grows Mistake Accepting Regret Consequence Learn From Your Mistakes

Author:Marilyn Manson

“I would rather sustain the penalties resulting from over-conservatism than face the consequences of error, perhaps with permanent capital loss, resulting from the adoption of "New Era" philosophy where trees really do grow to the sky.”

Philosophy Faces Grows Loss Tree Sky Consequence Errors Eras Permanent Adoption Penalties Conservatism New Era

Author:Warren Buffett

“The actual consequences of Plan Colombia are to devastate peasant communities, which have been driven to drug production. These peasants have no particular desire to grow coca, but their other means of livelihood have been wiped out.”

Mean Has Beens Desire Grows Community Plans Particular Drug Consequence Productions Driven Peasants Livelihood Colombia

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, "expects what never was and never will be." And if the gap between the educated and the uneducated in America continues to grow as it is in our time, as fast as or faster than the gap between the rich and the poor, the gap between the educated and the uneducated is going to be of greater consequence and the more serious threat to our way of life. We must not, by any means, misunderstand that.”

Ifs Way Mean Said America Nations Grows Poor Rich Greater Serious Consequence Threat Ignorant Educated Faster Our Time Gaps Uneducated

Author:David McCullough

“Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. He therefore gives you experiences that stimulate growth, understanding, and compassion which polish you for your everylasting benefit.”

“I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.”

People Doe Made Age Grows Growing Up Missing Youth News Consequence Died Surprise Expected Maturity Unexpected Infant Calculations Infancy Surprise Me Friend Died

Author:Mark Twain

“The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. ... It was hay that allowed populations to grow and civilizations to flourish among the forests of Northern Europe. Hay moved the greatness of Rome to Paris and London, and later to Berlin and Moscow and New York.”

“The optimal choice that you can make in any situation is to grow spiritually. That means intending to create harmony, sharing, cooperation and reverence for life... There is wisdom in each of your choices because each of them creates consequences that you mwill experience and if you choose, learn from.”

Ifs Mean Soul Choices Grows Situation Consequence Harmony Cooperation You Choose Reverence Optimal Reverence For Life

Author:Gary Zukav