“My being consists of matter and form, that is, of soul and body; annihilation will reach neither of them, for they were never produced out of nothing. The consequence is, that every part of me will serve to make something in the world; and this again will change into another part through an infinite succession of change. This constant method of alteration gave me my being, and my father before me, and so on to eternity backward: for I think I may speak thus, even though the world be confined within certain determinate periods.” ThinkingWorldMaySoulMatterBodyFormCertainFatherSpeakPeriodsConsequenceEternityInfiniteMethodConstantConfinedSuccessionAnnihilationAlterationsSoul And Body Book:The Meditations: Translated from the Greek Source: The Meditations: Translated from the Greek
“One of the most helpful things I introduced (and of very considerable consequence to Canadians) was my ultimate success in persuading my colleagues (after continuing battle)to reduce the qualifying age for aged pensioners from seventy to sixty-five over a five year period.” YearsAgeFivePeriodsBattleConsequenceUltimateFive YearsHelpfulSixtyContinuingColleaguesSeventiesPersuadingQualifyingUltimate Success Book:Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage
“A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on this account regularity is of great consequence in exercising the moral and intellectual power. All nervous diseases have a marked tendency to observe regular periods; and the natural inclination to sleep at the approach of night is another instance of the same fact.” FactsActionNightNaturalSleepMoralHabitPeriodsExerciseDiseaseApproachIntellectualConsequenceAccountsTendenciesInstanceNervousCharacteristicsInclinationNervous SystemResumesRegularity Author:George Combe
“The middle years are ones in which children increasingly face conflicts on their own,... One of the truths to be faced by parentsduring this period is that they cannot do the work of living and relating for their children. They can be sounding boards and they can probe with the children the consequences of alternative actions.” YearsChildrenActionFacesMiddlePeriodsConflictConsequenceAlternativesBoards Author:Dorothy H Cohen
“The first period of getting famous was incredibly strange to me and really fun at the beginning because you didn't realise the consequences of anything. You could say or do whatever you wanted and it just didn't matter.” FirstsMatterWantedFunStrangePeriodsConsequenceRealising Author:Robert Pattinson
“The confusion, the difficulties, the contradictions which, in consequence of a want of accurate distinctions in this particular, have up to even a recent period encumbered mathematics in all those branches involving the consideration of negative and impossible quantities, will at once occur to the reader who is at all versed in this science, and would alone suffice to justify dwelling somewhat on the point, in connexion with any subject so peculiarly fitted to give forcible illustration of it as the Analytical Engine.” WantGivingImpossibleSubjectsParticularReaderPeriodsConsequenceNegativeDifficultyMathematicsConfusionBranchesDistinctionContradictionConsiderationJustifyEnginesQuantityAccurateDwellingInvolvingIllustrationConnexion Author:Ada Lovelace
“Several renowned scientists have been predicting for some time that the world could enter a period of cooling right around now, with consequences that could be dire.” WorldHas BeensPeriodsConsequenceScientistPredictingCoolingRenowned Author:Lawrence Solomon
“I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing in the security markets and business world which, while devoid of short term predictive value, bother me as to possible long term consequences.” WorldLongValuesCoursesTermEffortPracticeSecurityPeriodsConsequenceBotherLong TermShort TermBusiness World Author:Warren Buffett
“As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation's resources over a long period of time to make that right.” ThinkingHumansLongSaidMatterHardBigsNationsPeriodsConsequenceResourcesMajorityPopulationPracticalsHistoricHuman HistoryChunksLong Periods Of Time Author:Barack Obama