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“To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.”

Process Term Results Democracy Consequence Oneself Definitions Practicals Characteristics Unwanted

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The strong equilibrium point f just described is one of "unrelenting ferocity" against offenders. It exhibits a zeal for meting out justice that is entirely oblivious to the sometimes dire consequences to oneself or to the other faitheful i.e., those who have not deviated.”

Sometimes Strong Justice Consequence Oneself Zeal Exhibits Equilibrium Oblivious Offenders Unrelenting Ferocity

Author:Robert Aumann

“To reject censorship after studying the risks involved is very well. To reject it ex cathedra, in the tones of Calvin pronouncing a dogma, eyes and mind closed to the possible consequences, the even marginally possible, is to make things too comfortable for oneself.”

Mind Wells Eye Study Risk Involved Comfortable Consequence Oneself Tone Rejects Censorship Dogma Exes

Book:Parthian Words

Source: Parthian Words

“An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.”

Important Spirituality Fear Type Consequence Universal Oneself Opening Radical Fear Of Death

Book:Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research

Source: Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research

“Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.”

Feels Should Results Policy Consequence Oneself Feel Good Foreign Policy Justified Tangible

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was to accept the dangers and all the consequences as calmly as possible. Fretting and sweating about it all was not going to help.”

Way Helping Past Realizing Situation Accepting Danger Consequence Down And Oneself Bombs Bullets Sweating Fretting

Book:Going Solo

Source: Going Solo

“Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of one’s feelings of self-worth and one’s capacity to be a political agent.”

Self Feelings Beautiful Political Term Views Consequence Capacity Oneself Self Worth Agents Aesthetic Desirable Aesthetics

Author:Cornel West

“For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one’s place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things.”

Source: Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)

“Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself”

Steps Achievement Consequence Oneself Sincerity Every Step Steps Forward Toughness

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“Now, is it possible not to be hurt at all? Because the consequences of being hurt are the building of a wall around oneself, withdrawing in one's relationship with others in order not to be hurt more. In that there is fear and a gradual isolation. Now, we are asking: Is it possible not only to be free of past hurts but also never to be hurt again?”

Past Order Hurt Building Wall Consequence Asking Oneself Isolation Being Hurt Relationships With Others Withdrawing

Book:The Flame of Attention

Source: The Flame of Attention