#consequence

How could he know this new dawn's light would change his life forever? Set sail to sea, but pulled off course by the light of golden treasure. ↗

— Metallica

#life #life-choices #change

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind. ↗

— Washington Allston

#distinction #great #great mind #mind #never

My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

#consequences #formed #glass #intellectual #interests

The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#concept #consequences #evident #examines #information

I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort. ↗

— William Banting

#adds #am #any #bulk #comfortable

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things. ↗

— Bruce Barton

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The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election. ↗

— Belle Boyd

#certain #consequence #election #individually #lincoln

Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes. ↗

— Harry Browne

#acts #bear #care #consequences #free

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. ↗

— Vince Cable

#aspect #balance #balance sheets #banking #banks

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#concerned #consequence #convertible #excellence #into