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“If you look at Iraq and Afghanistan's situations, they are quickly becoming much like our reservations. They will have puppet governments funded and controlled by a U.S. Government that siphoned off their resources. You don't have to be an English major to read the writing on the wall; I am in here as a warning to others, just like those men who are in Guantanamo are a warning to others - if you stand up to us you face these same consequences.”

“If there were really serious consequences if I did not accept, then of course I would do whatever was necessary. But in general I really prefer some freedom.”

Ifs Courses Accepting Serious Consequence

Author:Dalai Lama

“I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love and the bitter unwanted passion of your sure defeat. I have heard, in that fierce embrace, even the gods speak of God.”

Ifs Knows Want Passion Speak Heard Willing Consequence Embrace Defeat Bitter Fierce Unwanted

Author:David Whyte

“If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.”

Ifs Should Answers Perfect Century Circumstances Consequence Improvement 20th Century

Book:Ill Fares the Land

Source: Ill Fares the Land

“I have the challenges sort of already there and as a consequence my companions feel a considerable desire to do this, too, and they feel very put out if they are left in the cold, so there we have it. We have me who has lots of ideas and then we have a very good team who wish - who are persuaded almost - to take part in these challenges.”

Ifs Feels Ideas Desire Left Wish Challenges Team Cold Consequence Very Good Companion Good Team

Author:Edmund Hillary

“Whatever backlash I was going to get, whatever consequence there was for stating my opinion, I was OK with. Because I look at my son's eyes, I look at the eyes of my daughter, and I would be a bad dad if my No. 1 goal wasn't always to put them in the best situation as possible.”

Ifs Looks Would Be Eye Goal Situation Opinion Son Dad Daughter Consequence My Daughter My Son Backlash

Author:Andrew Hawkins

“If a person cannot foresee the consequences of his act, and is not capable of understanding what he is told about its outcome by those with more experience, it is impossible for him to guide his act intelligently. In such a state, every act is alike to him.”

Ifs Persons States Understanding Impossible Capable Consequence Guides Outcomes

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.”

Ifs Inspirational Happiness Rich Safe Consequence Instinct Following Enthusiasm Boldness Rich Life

Book:The Little Locksmith: A Memoir

Source: The Little Locksmith: A Memoir

“People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it”

People Ifs Looks Mean Seems Action Risk Danger Terrible Consequence Distance

Book:India's quest: being letters on Indian history from 'Glimpses of world history.'

Source: India's quest: being letters on Indian history from 'Glimpses of world history.'

“If we don't start with rapid emissions reductions and substantial emissions reductions, then we will pass a danger point, beyond which the consequences for many people and countries on Earth will simply become unacceptable and eventually disastrous.”

People Ifs Country Earth Danger Consequence Rapids Reduction Emissions

Author:Michael Oppenheimer

“Addiction is when you fall in love with a drug instead of a child or a lover and the learning that takes part in that part of the brain is designed by evolution to get us to persist despite negative consequences to do what we need to do - because I don't know anybody who could survive a relationship or parenting if not for the ability to persist despite negative consequences. The problem is when that gets misdirected to a drug and then you can find yourself in some very negative and potentially deadly situations.”

Ifs Knows Needs Children Problem Fall Ability Brain Situation Evolution Lovers Drug Consequence Negative Falling In Love Addiction Despite Finding Yourself Persist Negative Consequences

Author:Maia Szalavitz

“We own ourselves. This is the core of a libertarian theory of rights. But on this theory, while we are at liberty to kill ourselves (regardless of the consequences of others), we are not allowed to kill others, not even if this means that there we be fewer murders in the future, totally speaking.”

Ifs Mean Liberty Rights Theory Consequence Murder Libertarian Core Fewer

Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo

“For decades, Colombia has been accused of being the world's principal provider of cocaine. If this comes to an end, it would be a dramatic change for our country - which has been suffering more than any other from the consequences of drug-trafficking.”

“Even those who specialize in the history of philosophy often ignore the political and cultural context, and the natural world in which their philosophers were philosophizing. This has consequences both trivial and important. If you systematically read the last fifty years of the major journals in our discipline you would be amazed at the amount of redundancy. Most of this is unacknowledged because most of us know so little about the history of our discipline and even the subfields in which we work.”

Ifs Knows World Years Littles Important Philosophy Would Be Lasts Political Natural Amount Discipline Majors Consequence Philosopher Fifty Amazed Journal Natural World Redundancy

Author:Dale Jamieson

“Whether when I was a child and fought the British in the Monkey brigade, or when I was a girl and wanted to have children, or when I was a woman and devoted myself to my father, making my husband angry. Each time I stayed involved all the way in my decision, and took the consequences. Even if I was fighting for things that didn't concern India.”

Ifs Way Children Wanted Girl Fighting Father Decision Involved Husband Consequence Concern India Angry British My Husband Devoted Monkeys

Author:Indira Gandhi

“If you're a realist, you know that people have different roles to play in politics, economics, and this is an important role, but I do think that there has to be an understanding of how what happens here on Wall Street has such broad consequences not just for the domestic but the global economy, so more thought has to be given to the process and transactions and regulations so that we don't kill or maim what works, but we concentrate on the most effective way of moving forward with the brainpower and the financial power that exists here.”

“If you ask me if I have this or that principle, tell me what its consequences are, and then I'll tell you whether I have that principle or not.”

Ifs Asks Principles Consequence Ask Me

Author:Robert Hass

“That support has been so constant and gracious and loving. Michelle and I have never felt as if, at any stage, folks didn't have our backs. And as a consequence, I think that just spurred us on that much more to make us want to do the right thing, and do our best in the positions that we have.”

Ifs Thinking Want Has Beens Felt Support Stage Position Consequence Constant Folks Right Thing Gracious

Author:Barack Obama

“I don't think it is the most important thing. I think it is the fact that the director of national intelligence gave a false statement to Congress under oath, which is a felony. If we allow our officials to knowingly break the law publicly and face no consequences, we're instituting a culture of immunity, and this is what I think historically will actually be considered the biggest disappointment of the [Barack] Obama administration.”

“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'm not against work, I think work is great, I work a lot; but if you want to play, the consequences must not be important.”

Ifs Thinking Want Important Play Consequence

Author:Keith Johnstone

“There are certain indicia of marriage - certain legal and social consequences and certain legitimacy - which if given to some relationship other than marriage between a man and a woman tend to degrade if not destroy the institution that's been honored over so many thousands of years.”

Ifs Men Years Certain Given Social Consequence Institutions Honored Degrade Legitimacy

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“Obviously cheap sentimentality isn't something any good novelist wants to traffic in, but I think it's a problem if you consider it to be the most egregious of all creative sins. I think it's a problem if you consider it the thing to be avoided at all cost. I think it's a problem of you're not willing to risk the consequences of that kind of emotionalism under any circumstances. Then you wind up in the cul-de-sac of irony.”

Ifs Thinking Want Kind Problem Sin Creative Risk Willing Wind Circumstances Cost Consequence Irony Novelists Traffic Avoided Sentimentality

Author:Steve Erickson

“We are desperately in need of the kind of smart diplomacy that has worked for America in the past. If you use force, it should be a last resort. And it needs to be used with full understanding of the consequences.”

Ifs Needs Should Kind Use Lasts America Past Used Force Understanding Smart Consequence Diplomacy Resorts

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.”

Ifs Trying Hard Deals Consequence Manage Diabetes Life Is Hard Trying Hard Later In Life

Author:Bryan Adams

“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

“If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.”

Ifs Life Trying Young Religion Consequence Practicals Backgrounds Conformity Followers Artificial Quests

Book:Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft

Source: Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft

“If nothing else in life, I want to be true to the things I believe in, and quite simply, to what I'm all about. I know I'd better, because it seems whenever I take a false step or two I feel the consequences.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Believe Two Seems I Believe Steps Consequence I Believe In Being True

Author:Peyton Manning

“You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.”

Ifs World Inspirational Can Do This World Positive Thinking Consequence Prepared Human Bondage

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“If you and I become vegans, the global consequences aren't going to be that much. But if we can get a few hundred million people to become a little more aware and cut back on their animal consumption, the consequences will be great.”

People Ifs Littles Animal Millions Cutting Hundred Consequence Vegan Consumption

Author:Moby

“But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.”

People Ifs Care Millions Health Cost Consequence Increase Health Care Reports Margins

Author:Barack Obama

“If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive.”

Ifs Jobs Past Opportunity Social Support Creation Consequence Safety Trade Thrive Agreement Assistance Adjustment New Job Safety Net Job Creation Trade Agreements

Author:Susan Rice

“I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.”

Ifs Mean Persons Law Pay Divine Consequence Built Laws Of Nature Retribution

Author:Pat Robertson

“If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.”

Ifs Love Friendship Judging Consequence Hatred Broken Heart Friendship Love

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Two Government Parent Break Economy Consequence Bigger Neighborhood Breaking Down Breakdown

Author:Rick Santorum

“It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.”

People Ifs Humans Helping Seems Action Moving Possibility Paper Ethics Consequence Realms Ethical Multiple Human Actions

Author:Zadie Smith

“One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.”

Ifs Way Want Giving Believe Lying Asks Powerful Consequence Satan Deceptive

Author:Charles Stanley

“Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.”

Ifs Want Three Responsibility Situation Accepting Consequence Unhappy Remove Taking Responsibility Here And Now Power Of Now Wherever You Are Responsibility For Your Life Power Of Now Book

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires.”

“If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth.”

Ifs Believe Christian Given Christ Consequence Inspired Trials Attributes Instruction Severe Affliction Apostles Perplexity

Author:Ellen G. White

“There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.”

Ifs Men Children Opportunity Social Process Men And Women Consequence Equality Equality Of People Equality Of Opportunity Social Equality Equality Of Man

Book:President Wilson's Addresses

Source: President Wilson's Addresses

“If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.”

Ifs Years Facts Seems Past Simple Military Policy Lessons Consequence Complexes Affair Foreign Policy Intervention Unintended Consequences Military Intervention

Author:Fareed Zakaria

“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

“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”

Ifs Happens Action Next Women Knowledge Morning Laughing Drink Bed Consequence Stones Dare Doomed Ruined Foresight

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Life is not made of atoms,it is merely built out of them. What life is actually 'made of' is cycles of cause and effect, loops of causal flow. These phenomenon are just as real as atoms - perhaps even more real. If anything, the entire universe is actually made from events, of which atoms are merely some of the consequences.”

Ifs Made Real Life Is Universe Causes Effects Events Consequence Built Flow Cycles Phenomenon Atoms Cause And Effect Loops

Book:Creation: Life and How to Make It

Source: Creation: Life and How to Make It

“but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.”

Ifs Thinking Should Firsts Action Moving Consequence Consolation Earnest Halt Weighing

Author:Jose Saramago

“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

“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.”

“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

“Who you get, and how it works out - there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice of a mate, that no one and no amount of talking can untangle it if it turns out unhappily.”

Ifs Wells Turns Choices Talking Millions Amount Involved Conscious Consequence Luck Work Out Mates

Author:Ian Mcewan

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