“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.” PeopleYearsHelpingFacesOrderSocialSituationCasesRiskMilitaryExampleSeriousConsequenceCapacityDoctorsWillingnessCompelledEmergenciesEpidemicsColonizationGuineaSierraEbolaSierra Leone Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“Motivation is the key. More than training, more than experience or age, motivation counts. You have to ask yourself: 'Why am I racing?' I race because I like it, because I'm really enjoying it. I like to set up my bike and ride it on track. After 20 years in the GPs I'm still highly motivated. Everything else is a consequence.” YearsStillsAgeMotivationAsksEnjoyRaceKeysTrainingConsequenceTrackMotivatedRacingBikeGps Author:Valentino Rossi
“As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.” YearsFirstsNextVictoryTenConsequenceFoundationDecadesFirmFirm Foundation Author:Thabo Mbeki
“Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives.” KnowsYearsKindPlansEconomicTaxesPercentConsequenceIncludingDebtSpendingBoostNational DebtFederal Spending Author:Karl Rove
“The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.” YearsLawPerspectiveConsequencePausesThrough The YearsUnintended Consequences Author:Richard Schickel
“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.” IfsYearsFactsSeemsPastSimpleMilitaryPolicyLessonsConsequenceComplexesAffairForeign PolicyInterventionUnintended ConsequencesMilitary Intervention Author:Fareed Zakaria
“It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin.” YearsHumansMightWaterWalksExistenceTakenConsequenceRiversTwentiesHistoricalPityRelatedCriedDiscipleCoinsHuman ExistenceFeatsLevitation Author:Peter Matthiessen
“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.” YearsPastBornLossProgressWeekConsequenceDestructionInnocentConfrontationTangibleOver The PastPrecious GiftsInnocent Life Author:Abdallah II
“What year these events transpired is of no consequence. Where they occured is not important. The time is always, and the place is everywhere.” YearsImportantEventsConsequence Book:What the Night Knows (with bonus novella Darkness Under the Sun): A Novel Source: What the Night Knows (with bonus novella Darkness Under the Sun): A Novel
“Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.” TryingYearsLossModernBalanceActivityConsequenceAspectInvestmentFinancialScalesTraditionalGamblingMassiveSheetsBankingLendingRetailCasinosBalance SheetsInvestment Banking Author:Vince Cable