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“The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government.”

Government Economic Crime Serious Mets Tough Consequence International Sanctions Militia Economic Sanctions

Author:Allyson Schwartz

“Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts of the world society is given to instant gratification and consumerism while remaining indifferent to the damage which these attitudes cause. Simplicity, moderation and discipline, as well as a spirit of sacrifice, must become part of everyday life, lest all suffer the negative consequences of the careless habits of a few.”

“The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse any and all opposition. The proper word for that attitude is totalitarian. It declares certain controversies over and visits serious consequences from social ostracism to vocational defenestration upon those who refuse to be silenced.”

“The full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have substantial effects on the domestic financial markets and on the value of the dollar in exchange markets. The Nation can ill afford to allow such a result. The risks, the cost, the disruptions, and the incalculable damage lead me to but one conclusion: the Senate must pass this legislation before the Congress adjourns.”

“You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do things that turn out to have serious consequences. It's very hard make a story out of people doing the right thing over and over again.”

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Author:Kelly Link

“I am very much afraid that the loss of Cyrenaica will have serious political consequences for the Duce.”

Political Loss Serious Consequence

Author:Ugo Cavallero

“It is precisely because a child's feelings are so strong that they cannot be repressed without serious consequences. The stronger a prisoner is, the thicker the prison walls have to be, which impede or completely prevent later emotional growth.”

Children Feelings Strong Growth Emotional Serious Wall Consequence Stronger Prison Prisoner Repressed Emotional Growth Prison Walls

Book:The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition

Source: The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition

“Gun-free zones don't deter criminals-they help them by providing a guarantee that they will not face any armed resistance. But they do deter the law-abiding. A faculty member with a concealed-handgun permit who breaks the campus gun ban would be fired and likely find it impossible to get admitted to another school. Bringing a firearm into a gun-free zone can have serious adverse consequences for law-abiding people. But for someone like the Virginia Tech killer, the threat of expulsion is no deterrent at all.”

Source: Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns

“Chance plays a powerful role in every life - our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all; a few drops here or there matter enormously - but consequences often become more serious as income levels go down.”

Matter Play Chance Levels Powerful Brain Roles Serious Personality Consequence Income Chemicals Soup

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“Those things which now seem frivolous and slight, Will be of serious consequence to you, When they have made you once ridiculous.”

Made Seems Serious Consequence Ridiculous Frivolous

Author:Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

“The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere matters of subjective taste. But differences in character are ethically of the most fundamental importance.”

Matter Character Differences Serious Theory Taste Consequence Importance Regard Fundamentals Mere Confusion Ethical Preference Subjective Temperament

Book:Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

“Lion is a beautiful creature. It's a wonderful creature. But it's easy outrage. And I also believe that this kind of outrage is a consequence of a moral cowardice in the face of other evil, that you transfer your impotence about other - in other arenas to this, because you know that people will agree with you that this is really bad, but there are serious outrages out there that are bigger than a lion.”

People Knows Believe Kind Beautiful Faces Evil Easy Moral Wonderful Serious Creatures Consequence Bigger Agree Lions Cowardice Arena Outrage Transfers Impotence Beautiful Creatures

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.”

World Would Be Mistake Land Serious Consequence Threat Indifference Fanaticism Serious Mistakes

Author:Elie Wiesel

“The Great Depression was not a sign of the failure of monetary policy or a result of the failure of the market system as was widely interpreted. It was instead a consequence of a very serious government failure, in particular a failure in the monetary authorities to do what they'd initially been set up to do.”

Government Results Policy Particular Serious Authority Consequence Monetary Great Depression Monetary Policy

Author:Milton Friedman

“Reasonably accurate appraisal of one's own capabilities is, therefore, of considerable value in successful functioning. Large misjudgments of personal efficacy in either direction have consequences. People who grossly overestimate their capabilities undertake activities that are clearly beyond their reach. As a result, they get themselves into considerable difficulties, undermine their credibility, and suffer needless failures. Some of the missteps, of course, can produce serious, irreparable harm”

“Your most important tasks and priorities are those that can have the most serious consequences, positive or negative, on your life or work. Focus on these above all.”

Important Focus Serious Consequence Negative Tasks Priorities

Book:Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

“I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious - which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences.”

Thinking May Important Bits Mistake Serious Capable Consequence Scientist Humble Making Mistakes Arrogant Unpredictable

Author:Robert Winston

“Telephone handsets are particularly in need of built-in security. We have almost every aspect of our personal and work lives reflected on them and we lose them all the time. We leave them in taxis. We leave them on airplanes. The consequences of one of these devices falling into the wrong hands are very, very serious.”

Needs Hands Fall Loses Security Serious Consequence Built Aspect Devices Airplane Telephones Taxi

Author:Matt Blaze

“In my judgement, when the United States says there will be serious consequences, and if there isn't serious consequences, it creates adverse consequences.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“A couple degrees warmer would be good for humanity and planet, especially with more plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide in the air. [...] But a couple degrees colder would bring serious adverse consequences for habitats, wildlife, agriculture and humanity."”

Would Be Humanity Air Planets Serious Couple Degrees Consequence Plant Be Good Agriculture Carbon Wildlife Adverse Habitat Carbon Dioxide

Author:Paul Driessen

“Until African-Americans and Hispanics can get serious, not just about area studies, which are important, but also about science and technology, they're not going to generate that wealth and that job within those communities. And that has absolutely devastating consequences for the places where people live, for the jobs and for the wealth.”

People Important Jobs Community Wealth Technology Study Serious Consequence Areas African American Science And Technology

Author:Juan Enriquez

“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

“There's an increase in serious weight disorders from cellphone use. And people who don't sleep have serious other consequences for their health that can be associated with it. There may be as well increases in problems with their memory. And all of those things are not as sexy and don't demand as much attention as cancer, but they can be very, very important from a public health point of view.”

People Wells May Important Use Problem Memories Sleep Views Attention Serious Demand Consequence Weight Increase Cancer Sexy Point Of View Disorder Public Health Cellphone

Author:Devra Davis

“Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.”

People Knows Difficult Laughing Serious Consequence Comedian Anxious Making People Laugh

Author:Robyn Hitchcock

“The U.S. and, to a certain extent, countries in Europe as well, have experienced growing inequality within their population for decades - a small group of people own the lion's share of the wealth. Populists take advantage of this, and their policies are extremely hard to predict. And this has serious consequences. Companies shy away from risk, postponing their investment decisions in times of uncertainty, the stock markets get nervous and unemployment threatens to increase.”

“How do we explain for example the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea Conakry? Those very powers that swindled and occupied them, in the face of the serious situation of social emergency, have not even had the capacity to send doctors there. In some cases they have sent in militaries instead because that is what they are compelled to do. They have had to send military to do it because they do not even have any doctors with the willingness to risk their lives in order to help those people that are precisely paying for the consequences of years of colonization.”

“I don't have any problem with the United States acting on behalf of its own interests. That's what big powers do; that's what all countries do. I would just like to see us analyze in a serious way what really is in our interest. Sometimes we intervene in foreign countries in ways that seem successful at first. In the end, however, we wind up with unpredicted consequences that make us regret those operations.”

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Author:Stephen Kinzer

“The nice thing about us lot is that what we do is of no consequence. We don't do things that are important; we spend our lives doing things which are not important. That's what's nice about us, we're not pompous. We never do anything very bad that's gonna change the world. We're not serious, we're butterflies. We live for a day.”

World Important Nice Serious Consequence Changing The World Butterfly Pompous

Author:Marianne Faithfull

“Having serious consequences to your decision-making process is something you have to be very comfortable with. It's something you learn and you practise over time, so I encourage people to find some way to challenge themselves. The other thing I share with people, which I've learned over time, is self-confidence. You have to get very comfortable with saying, "Well, every day, I'm just going to give my best. I have skill sets I've learned, I'm going to employ them, and my best is going to be good enough".”

People Giving Enough Challenges Share Serious Consequence Be Good Good Enough

Author:Jeremy Hansen

“The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure.”

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Author:Charles Schumer

“Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.”

May Serious Consequence Rebellious

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.”

Long Term Simple Results Serious Late Consequence Cancer Long Term Related Breasts Diagnosis Breast Cancer Cancer Survivor Painless Breast Cancer Survivor

Author:Olympia Snowe

“I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.”

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Author:Oliver Stone

“My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.”

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Author:Lech Walesa

“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

“This church does not belong to its President. Its head is the Lord Jesus Christ, whose name each of us has taken upon ourselves. We are all in this great endeavor together. We are here to assist our Father in His work and His glory. Your obligation is as serious in your sphere of responsibility as is my obligation in my sphere. No calling in this church is small or of little consequence.”

“Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.”

Knows Serious Consequence

Book:Disgrâce

Source: Disgrâce

“And in situations where a man and a woman each receive negative feedback, the woman's self-confidence and self-esteem drop to a much greater degree. The internalization of failure and the insecurity it breeds hurt future performance, so this pattern has serious long-term consequences.”

Source: Lean In for Graduates