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“When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.”

Ifs Way Writing Past Process Pay Commitment Consequence Paid Prepared Interfere Writing Process Living My Life I Live My Life

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.”

Source: Why History Matters: Life and Thought

“In the past I've tended to overreact. I was sure I'd be a superstar by the time I was twenty-one. Baseball messed up my plan of life. When I fail I get upset. Sometimes I get upset too quickly, without thinking of consequences.”

Thinking Sometimes Past Plans Failing Consequence Baseball Twenties Upset Twenty One Superstar Messed Up

Author:Albert Belle

“Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary intent, usually reformist consequences and always visionary outlook.”

Way Action Past Struggle Alive Consequence Alternatives Revolutionary Tragic Outlook Visionaries Prophetic Pragmatism Praxis

Author:Cornel West

“Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.”

“The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.”

“We have a higher percentage of the intelligentsia engaged in buying and selling pieces of paper and promoting trading activity than in any past era. A lot of what I see now reminds me of Sodomand Gomorrah. You get activity feeding on itself, envy and imitation. It has happened in the past that there came bad consequences.”

Past Pieces Happened Higher Activity Paper Consequence Envy Selling Eras Engaged Buying Imitation Feeding Trading Promoting Percentages Buying And Selling

Author:Charlie Munger

“If you sat with a pencil and jotted down all the decisions you've taken in the past week, or, if you could, over your lifetime, you would realize that almost all of them have had asymmetric payoff, with one side carrying a larger consequence than the other. You decide principally based on fragility, not probability. Or to rephrase, You decide principally based on fragility, not so much on True/False.”

Ifs Past Sides Realizing Decision Taken Week Consequence Lifetime Sat Over You Probability Pencils Fragility Payoff

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“We want to believe that we can continue doing what we've done for the past thousand years and not worry about the consequences coming back to us.”

Want Years Believe Done Past Worry Thousand Consequence Thousand Years Coming Back

Author:Sylvia Earle

“We must also suffer the consequences of our past decisions. And for that, we must open our hearts to those in need.”

Needs Heart Past Suffering Decision Consequence Our Past Those In Need Past Decisions

Author:Katharine Hayhoe

“The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China's future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state, the jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.”

“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

“Take, say, the solidarity movement in Central America, which I think is what you probably had in mind. To a large extent, it comes out of mainstream Christianity, based on beliefs that have had outrageous human consequences in the past, and that I think are totally indefensible. In this case, they happen to lead to some of the most courageous, heroic, and honourable human action that's taking place anywhere in the world. Well, that's how life is, I guess. It doesn't come in neat little packages.”

“People are offering competing visions of what happened in the past. And the justice system is willing to accept either of those competing visions and to impose consequences as a result. When you think of it that way, it's a little bit startling, because we want to believe that there is one truth and, therefore, one justice, whereas, if you have practiced law as long as I have, you realize that there is actually a range of acceptable outcomes.”

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Author:Scott Turow

“The Greeks really believed in history. They believed that the past had consequences and that you might be punished for the sins of your father. America, and particularly New York, runs on the idea that history doesn't matter. There is no history. There is only the never-ending present. You don't even have your family because you moved here to get away from them, so even that idea of personal history has been cut at the knees.”

Running Past Father Sin Cutting Consequence Moved Greek Our Family Get Away

Author:Christopher Bollen

“Your desire to please... actors are people pleasers and if somebody says your vocal choice in this was ridiculous or whatever you will come back and do it differently. So, to avoid getting into a situation where you're altering your performance way down the line you have to just not do it at all. It's hard and I have done it in the past to disastrous consequences!”

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Author:Romola Garai

“When I look back on the past two decades of my journey today, I guess many people would interpret my artistic practice as a kind of cross-media attempt. I have indeed tried many different kinds of media over the past 20 years and collaborated in many different ways with people from many different fields. However, I like to understand this process as a kind of compensation for having once lost my "right of choice," an exercise of free choice and taking responsibility for any consequences that might result from it. To be honest, it's a bit of a paranoid act.”

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Author:Wang Jianwei

“I'm all for file sharing. That's great - as long as people are prepared for the significant consequences. One is that music will become completely couched in advertising. That's already happened. And another is that people should be prepared to have fun with the past because the only music that can possibly be free is the music that's from the past. It costs money to make music. And if people are prepared to only have the past to listen to, then let it be free.”

People Long Past Fun Consequence Significant Advertising Having Fun Be Prepared

Author:Ian MacKaye

“We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.”

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Author:Bjorn Lomborg

“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

“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

“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

“...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously.”

Believe May Happens Past Life Is Memories Chance Space Fiction Events Consequence Passing Passings Being True Fragile Single Life Past Present Past Present And Future Gauges

Author:Isabel Allende

“Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.”

Life Done Inspiration Past Consequence Redemption

Book:Warrior of the Light -

Source: Warrior of the Light -

“The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.”

Past Wish Can Do One Thing Consequence Prisoner

Author:John Berger

“I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.”

Eye Action Past Interesting Views Consequence I Have Learned Our Past

Book:A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

“It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.”

People Ifs Thinking Helping Past Loses Consequence Empty Weight Cake Throwing Plates Lose Weight Throwing Away

Author:Timothy B. Tyson

“Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.”

Years Past Born Loss Progress Week Consequence Destruction Innocent Confrontation Tangible Over The Past Precious Gifts Innocent Life

Author:Abdallah II

“The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes of the other. The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds, that go on and are pushing themselves throughout all time. - Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”

“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

“Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you”

Past Evil Consequence Rap Our Past Your Past

Author:Kendrick Lamar

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