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“A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the propensities of the living - an anomaly on the face of the earth - being very calm, yet breathless.”

Earth Faces Alive Consequence Calm Ill Instance Fearful Qualifications Attending Propensity Breathless Anomalies

Book:The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Source: The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

“A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on this account regularity is of great consequence in exercising the moral and intellectual power. All nervous diseases have a marked tendency to observe regular periods; and the natural inclination to sleep at the approach of night is another instance of the same fact.”

“The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.”

May Shows Simple Economy Theory Standards Consequence Gains Credit Graves Instance Conformity

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“The accumulation of great wealth is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it, the consequence of which is that the working people perish in old age and the employer abounds in affluence.”

People Littles Age Wealth Effects Consequence Labor Old Age Instance Employers Accumulation Affluence

Author:Thomas Paine

“I also want to raise the possibility that there are, in the very long term, "virtue effects" in economics- for instance that widespread corrupt accounting will eventually create bad long term consequences as a sort of obverse effect from the virtue-based boost double-entry book-keeping gave to the heyday of Venice. I suggest that when the financial scene starts reminding you of Sodomand Gomorrah, you should fear practical consequences even if you like to participate in what is going on.”

Ifs Want Should Long Book Term Virtue Effects Possibility Scene Consequence Economics Raises Financial Practicals Instance Long Term Venice Entry Accounting Reminding Boost Heyday

Author:Charlie Munger

“Back in the '50s and '60s, most politicians were concerned about not talking about faith, partly because there were consequences you had to deal with - (for instance) Catholicism had been made an issue.”

Made Deals Talking Issues Politician Consequence Concerned Instance Catholicism Not Talking

Author:Barack Obama

“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.”

“There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality. It makes no sense at all because it is the eternal breaking in on the temporal. So how could it subordinate itself to cause or consequence?”

Needs Reality Causes Justice Eternal Consequence Instance Proportion Glimpse Subordinates Parables

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“As with any turning point or instance when a new road is chosen and an old one forsaken, there are consequences.”

Consequence Chosen Instance Turning Points Forsaken New Roads

Author:Michael J. Fox

“The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs, or "brainwashing," but rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time in confining settings.”

Source: The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil

“The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see clearly what it means. Then check the theorem; it could be false. Examine the consequences, verify as many particular instances as are needed to convince yourself of the truth. When you have satisfied yourself that the theorem is true, you can start proving it.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Mean Truth Particular Needed Prove Consequence Math Satisfied Checks Instance Convince Examination Theorems True You Verify

Author:George Polya