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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

“Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.”

States Evil Natural Civilization Consequence Prepared Inevitable

Author:Robert E. Howard

“This is the inevitable consequence of a popular movie: you become the guy who wrote "the book that inspired the movie." Frankly speaking, I find it a bit insulting.”

Book Guy Bits Consequence Inspired Inevitable Insulting Popular Movie

Author:Sergei Lukyanenko

“Life from nonlife, like wine from water, has long been considered a miracle wrought by gods or God. Now it is seen to be the near-inevitable consequence of our thermal and chemical circumstances.”

Long Water Circumstances Consequence Miracle Wine Inevitable Chemicals Thermal

Author:Ursula Goodenough

“The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.”

Self Ability Economy Greater Consequence Response Size Inevitable Flexible Disturbance Imbalance

Author:Alan Greenspan

“The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion has protected us as man had never been protected before from having to take seriously the civilizations of other peoples; it has given to our culture a massive universality that we have long ceased to account for historically, and which we read off rather as necessary and inevitable.”

“It was the fashion of the times to attribute every remarkable event to the particular will of the Deity; the alterations of nature were connected, by an invisible chain, with the moral and metaphysical opinions of the human mind; and the most sagacious divines could distinguish, according to the colour of their respective prejudices, that the establishment of heresy tended to produce an earthquake, or that a deluge was the inevitable consequence of the progress of sin and error.”

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

“What people today call inflation is not inflation, i.e., the increase in the quantity of money and money substitutes, but the general rise in commodity prices and wage rates which is the inevitable consequence of inflation.”

People Today Consequence Increase Rate Investing Inevitable Substitutes Quantity Commodity Inflation Commodity Prices

Book:Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses

Source: Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses

“Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all... whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.”

Feels Happens Action Life Is Results Silence Hell Consequence Inevitable Damn Nothingness Screws Implications Loving Someone How You Feel Whatever Happens Screwed Up

Author:Janis Joplin

“The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.”

Ifs Want Success Loss Danger Degrees Glory Consequence Ill Reputation Inevitable

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“Government Picking Winners and Losers = Corruption. When government tries to pick winners and losers, the inevitable consequence is corruption. Yes, corruption. If not in a legal sense, certainly in a moral sense”

Ifs Trying Government Moral Picks Consequence Corruption Inevitable Winner Loser Winner And Loser

Author:Gary Johnson

“Inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty.”

Liberty Consequence Inequality Inevitable

Book:Anarchy Or Hierarchy

Source: Anarchy Or Hierarchy

“To be awake and harmonious creates the possibility for ecstasy to happen. Ecstasy means the ultimate joy, inexpressible; no words are adequate to say anything about it. And when one has attained to ecstasy, when one has known the ultimate peak of joy, compassion comes as a consequence. When you have that joy, you like to share it; you cannot avoid sharing, sharing is inevitable.”

Mean Happens Joy Compassion Known Share Possibility Consequence Ultimate Inevitable Awake Ecstasy Say Anything Adequate Harmonious

Author:Rajneesh

“The time will come, and probably during 2009, that the only way the U.S. will be able to fund its deficits is to create money by printing it. The Treasury will have to sell bonds, and, in the absence of foreign buyers, the Fed will have to print the money to buy them. The consequence will be runaway inflation, increasing interest rates, recession, and inevitable tax increases on all Americans.”

Way Able Interest Taxes Consequence Increase Sells Rate Absence Inevitable Fund Feds Print Inflation Deficit Printing Recessions Treasury Interest Rate Buyers Runaway Tax Increases

Author:Doug Casey

“Notwithstanding all the passionate fulminations of the spokesmen of governments, the inevitable consequences of inflationism and expansionism...are coming to pass. And then, very late indeed, even simple people will discover that Keynes did not teach us how to perform the 'miracle...of turning a stone into bread,' but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.”

People Government Simple Teach Late Eating Consequence Stones Miracle Passionate Seeds Bread Inevitable Miraculous Corn Procedures Keynes

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“I have lived under the threat of death for a year now. And because of that, I have made choices. Listen to me. I alone should suffer the consequences of those choices, no one else. And those consequences, they're coming. No more prolonging the inevitable.”

Should Years Made Suffering Choices Consequence Threat Inevitable Insightful Listen To Me Prolonging Suffering The Consequences

Author:Walter White

“The fact that you have a policy of such consequence directly affecting millions of people and you have a legal question of great consequence about the scope of the president's authority to act in implementing the immigration laws in this way and you have a one-line decision from the court affirming by an equally-divided court, it's an inevitable consequence of where we are.”

People Way Facts Law President Lines Decision Millions Policy Authority Consequence Court Immigration Inevitable Divided Scope Affirming One Line Implementing Immigration Laws

Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.

“The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand the contradictions and the difficulties of the socialist development of an isolated country, the higher will it appreciate the results achieved. The less it identifies the fundamental methods of Socialism with the zigzags and errors of the Soviet bureaucracy, the less will be the danger that, by the inevitable revelation of these errors and of their consequences, the authority, not only of the present ruling group, but of the workers' State itself, may decline.”

“If we were immortal, then life would be meaningless, because nothing would be of consequence. Certainly one way of taking the edge off the prospect of our inevitable demise is to ponder how much more horrendous it would be if we persisted in perpetuity. And yet, if you told me I had X number of days left to live, I would lobby for X plus one.”

Consequence Inevitable Immortal Meaningless Pondering

Author:Sheldon Solomon

“A miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences . . . a miracle. . . . An act of high imagination -- daring and lurid and impossible. Yes, a cartoon of the mind.”

Mind Law Imagination Natural Impossible Consequence Miracle Inevitable Daring Cartoon Natural Law Reversal

Book:Going After Cacciato

Source: Going After Cacciato

“There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply move toward the inevitable without thinking on the consequences.”

Thinking Giving Moving Certain Giving Up Consequence Bounds Inevitable Dread Cords

Book:Last Breath

Source: Last Breath

“To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority of the Federal Government.”

Government Effects Policy Objects Authority Consequence Debt Inevitable Permanent Patriotic Federal Government Public Service Appropriation

Book:Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk

Source: Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk

“The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.”

Wisdom Politics Poverty Economy Consequence Inevitable Liberalism Dependence

Book:Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets

Source: Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets