#consequence

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

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If nothing else in life, I want to be true to the things I believe in, and quite simply, to what I'm all about. I know I'd better, because it seems whenever I take a false step or two I feel the consequences. ↗

— Peyton Manning

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I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly. ↗

— Chris Martin

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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

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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. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

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It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into. ↗

— John McCarthy

#because #bread #cannot #consequence #fights

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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