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“I have given the United States half the territory they possess, and for them to suffer me to remain in poverty, in consequence of it, will not redound much to their honor hereafter.”

States Suffering Given United Half Poverty United States Honor Consequence Territory Hereafter

Author:George Rogers Clark

“We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the US has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.”

Suffering Half Risk Honest Consequence Assuming Luxury Being Honest Germany Afghanistan Pakistan Skates Half Measures Suffering The Consequences

Author:Susan Rice

“Surely all Americans have the right to give their money only to those causes which they support. But what kind of society has this created? A society where the ignorant reign. A society where enlightened must hold their tongues. A nation whose politicians must profess half-hearted devotion to an ancient fable or face the disastrous consequences of speaking their true mind.”

Giving Mind Kind Faces Nations Causes Half Support Politician Consequence Ancient Tongue Devotion Ignorant Enlightened Reign Hearted Fables Half Hearted

Author:Christopher McCandless

“If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not. I did not read with anyone. Get the books, and read and study them till you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places.”

People Ifs Book Matter Done Three Reading Understanding Half Study Hundred Consequence Capacity Towns Determined Lawyer Features Principal Salem

Book:The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

“The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.”

Half Periods Consequence Eras Procrastination Delay Entering Soothing Stop Procrastination Appeasement Inconvenient Truth Half Measures

Book:Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches

Source: Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches

“According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency.”

“In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings, had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like an artist with no art form, she became dangerous.”

“I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. Death as a consequence of lying with a god wasn't something I had considered, but it did not surprise me. A mortal man's strength had its limits. He spent himself and slept. He could be a good lover, but even his best skills were only guesswork - for every caress that sent a woman's head into the clouds, he might try ten that brought her back to earth.”

Men Trying Might Earth Lying Half Lovers Succeed Ten Skills Limits Consequence Surprise Lips Clouds Mortals Remembered Throat Caress Surprise Me Guesswork Good Lovers

Author:N.K. Jemisin

“Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?”

Action Half Our Lives Consequence Ignorant True Nature Reproach

Book:Mardi: And a Voyage Thither

Source: Mardi: And a Voyage Thither

“Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.”

Happiness Goal Business Half Greater Century Consequence Oneself Psychiatrist Want To Be Happy Half A Century Unintended Consequences Viktor Frankl

Book:Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning