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“The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.”

Humans Made Action Certain Choices Teach Consequence Undone Human Actions Actions Have Consequences

Book:Why History Matters: Life and Thought

Source: Why History Matters: Life and Thought

“There has to be a consequence to failure. Schools in the inner cities cannot be told, 'Oh, we want you to teach every child to learn how to read and, incidentally, if you fail to do that there's no consequence,' .. There has to be a consequence to failure, and the Title I money needs to follow the child.”

Ifs Want Needs Children School Cities Teach Failing Consequence Titles Inner City

Author:Karl Rove

“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

“The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.”

Law Teach Consequence Unintended Consequences

Author:Ann Druyan

“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

“We can teach children about natural consequences and cause and effect of their relationships which is really a mirror of what happens in nature.”

Children Happens Causes Natural Teach Effects Consequence Mirrors Cause And Effect Natural Consequences

Author:Shefali Tsabary

“One peculiarity of an astronaut's job is that we do everything in public. Also, you don't want to make a mistake. In the best case, it's an embarrassment, in the worst, death. That's also part of the training. They teach you to think like an astronaut, like they do with a pilot, a military man, a fireman. You dissociate in your mind the gravity of the consequences of your mistake.”

Thinking Men Mind Mistake Teach Worst Military Training Consequence Embarrassment Astronaut Fireman

Author:David Saint-Jacques

“...boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life--...the lesson of your utter insignificance. It is valuable to you, as well as to those you are to rub shoulders with. 'You are finite,' time tells you in a voice of boredom, 'and whatever you do is, from my point of view, futile.' As music to your ears, this, of course, may not count; yet the sense of futility, of limited significance even of your best, most ardent actions is better than the illusion of their consequence and the attendant self-satisfaction.”

“I made strength from everything that had happened to me, so that in the end even the final tragedy could not defeat me. And that is what Ultima tried to teach me, that the tragic consequences of life can be overcome by the magical strength that resides in the human heart. --Antonio”

Humans Heart Made Ends Teach Happened Consequence Overcoming Tragedy Finals Defeat Tragic Human Heart Antonio Ultima

Author:Rudolfo Anaya

“One of the hardest things to teach a child is that truth is more important than consequences.”

Children Important Wisdom Teach Truth Is Consequence Hardest Hardest Thing

Author:Orlando Aloysius Battista

“Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.”

Mean Forget Teach Students Discipline Consequence Disciple Really Mean

Book:The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

Source: The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

“History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.”

People Spirit Common Numbers Race Principles Teach History Greater Consequence Accustomed Similarity

Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two