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“I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to steer away from affectation at all costs, as if it were a rough and dangerous reef, and (to use perhaps a novel word for it) to practise in all things a certain nonchalance [sprezzatura] which conceals all artistry and makes whatever one says or does seem uncontrived and effortless.”

Ifs Humans Doe Use Seems Action Certain Novel Dangerous Cost All Things Universal Rough Steers Artistry Effortless Practise Reefs Human Actions Nonchalance

Author:Baldassare Castiglione

“Whenever I was confronted in the schoolyard, I found some way to avoid the fight. I ran for it. I backed down. Psychologically and emotionally, that isn't a low-cost course of action for most boys. You avoid a physical beating, but you pay a real social and psychological cost for it. Those moments of walking away from fights, even though I knew it was the rational and civilized thing to do, cost me tremendously.”

Way Real Moments Action Fighting Courses Found Social Pay Boys Walking Cost Lows Rational Psychological Ran Things To Do Civilized Walking Away

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions has often been responsible for doubling software development costs.”

Action Poor Development Cost Projects Increase Responsible Management Following Factors Software Software Development Mismanagement Poor Management

Author:Barry Boehm

“If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense of a minority, is it moral action?”

Ifs Action Moral Taken Cost Benefits Majority Minorities Expenses Moral Action

Author:Garth Nix

“Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach - see what happens, limit damages, and learn from experience - is unworkable. Rather, we must take a proactive approach. This requires foresight to anticipate new types of threats and a willingness to take decisive preventive action and to bear the costs (moral and economic) of such actions.”

“It would be a very odd chancellor of any UK government that insisted on a course of action that cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds, that blew a massive hole in their balance of payments and, because assets and liabilities go hand in hand, would potentially leave the rest of the UK shouldering the entirety of UK debt.”

Hands Government Would Be Action Courses Millions Balance Cost Debt Holes Odd Pounds Massive Assets Payment Hand In Hand Own Business Liability Entirety Assets And Liabilities

Author:Nicola Sturgeon

“I don't think you can pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere indefinitely and not have a reaction. But there are great scientists such as Freeman Dyson, one of the greatest physicists of the last hundred years, who has studied the question, who believes quite the opposite. The reason transnational action is so difficult is because the major problem with climate change is, A, that there is no consensus, and, B, that the economic cost is simply staggering. Reversing it completely might mean undoing the modern industrial economy.”

“Even limited military actions end up carrying with them great costs and unintended consequences.”

Ends Action Military Cost Consequence Unintended Consequences Military Action

Author:Barack Obama

“The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the cost to itself. It changes darkness into light and evil into good. But it will not, at the cunning tears of Hell, impose on good the tyranny of evil. Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world's garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.”

World Inspirational Light Action Joy Evil Religious Healing Darkness Hell Tears Please Cost Disease Highest Garden Blue Rose Sake Smell Tyranny Pity Cures Leap Yellow Submit Lowest Cunning Jaundice

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The sign of the cross is the most terrible weapon against the devil. Thus the Church wishes not only that we have it continually in front of our minds to recall to us just what our souls are worth and what they cost Jesus Christ, but also that we should make it at every juncture ourselves: when we go to bed, when we awaken during the night, when we get up, when we begin any action, and, above all, when we are tempted.”

Should Mind Soul Action Night Jesus Wish Christ Church Fronts Terrible Cost Bed Weapons Devil Jesus Christ Crosses Get Up Recalls Tempted Juncture

Author:John Vianney

“People vastly overestimate the ability of central planners to improve on the independent action of diverse individuals. What I've learned watching regulators is that they almost always make things worse. If regulators did nothing, the self-correcting mechanisms of the market would mitigate most problems with more finesse. And less cost.”

People Ifs Self Problem Action Individual Ability Cost Independent I've Learned Mechanism Diverse Correcting Planners Overestimate Regulators Finesse

Author:John Stossel

“If I'm shooting actually a live-action movie and I feel like I can get the shots that I need with the existing 3D cameras, then I see there is no reason to not use those-to not shoot it in 3D. But there are limitations to the 3D cameras in terms of the amount of them, in terms of the size of them, in terms of where you can actually shoot them. There are definitely limitations so you have to weigh the costs. And you have to weigh also what ultimately what creatively you want to get.”

Ifs Want Needs Feels I Can Reason Use Action Term Amount Cost Shots Cameras Size Limitation Shooting No Reason Action Movie

Author:Neal H. Moritz

“The drug problem is in the United States, not in Mexico. It's a demand problem and that is to be dealt with here, and it is not being dealt with. It's been shown over and over that prevention and treatment are far more cost effective than police action, out-of-country action, border control, and so on.”

Country States Problem Action United United States Cost Drug Demand Police Borders Treatment Mexico Prevention Border Control

Author:Noam Chomsky

“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.”

Government Action Deals Cost Blow Delay

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.”

Action America Greater Military Involved Cost Convinced Libya Military Action Failure To Act

Author:Barack Obama

“The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.”

Ifs Long Action Evil Trouble Tree Effects Cost Roots Visible Posterity Hardwood

Book:Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays

Source: Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays

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