#consequence

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

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When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#consequence #global #identity #investment #lose

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine. ↗

— Steig Larsson

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Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory! ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

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The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. ↗

— Stanley Milgram

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There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people. ↗

— Toni Morrison

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We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious. ↗

— Gaylord Nelson

#around #consequences #extinguish #life #must

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#consequences #direct #direct result #i #i am

The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#administration #capitol #chairman #committee #concerns

All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

#barren #cases #consequence #death #dreadful