#consequence

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced. ↗

— Arthur Machen

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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

When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage. ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#control #created #everything #going #guarantees

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions. ↗

— George Tenet

#absolve #actions #ask #consequences #curiosity

He who feels compelled to consider the consequences of these facts cannot but realize that the specific sensibility of nerves for certain impressions is not enough, since all nerves are sensitive to the same cause but react to the same cause in different ways. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#cause #certain #compelled #consequences #consider

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. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

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The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#avoid #behavior #consequences #desire #difficulty

Europe must dissipate any doubts over the euro, affirm that the euro is an irreversible project and act in consequence. ↗

— Mariano Rajoy

#affirm #any #consequence #dissipate #doubts

We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy. ↗

— Rodrigo Rato

#american economy #believe #carry #consequence #economy

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

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