#cons

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining. ↗

— Grace Jones

#accept #believe #complaining #consequences #decisions

Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, and no one else trying to hurt America. ↗

— Van Jones

#al #america #believe #bin #conspiracy

We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#all things #condition #consequences #deafness #did

The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it. ↗

— Horatio Seymour

#constitution #democracy #merit #our #promotes

How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers. ↗

— Cecil Frank Powell

#also #am #case #conscious #great

We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#ceo #consultants #help #how #managers

If you were to describe me as teetotal, on behalf of my constituency I'd have to sue; that would lose me every vote in the Highlands. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#constituency #describe #every #i #lose

Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia. ↗

— William Kirby

#conjunction #consulting #cooperation #create #cultural

The key to any successful plan is buy-in from the public, and what this process has demonstrated is the importance of including citizens in formulating a consensus plan that preserves our beautiful refuge. ↗

— Ron Kind

#beautiful #citizens #consensus #demonstrated #formulating

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit. ↗

— Alveda King

#because #become #binds #cannot #commit