#consequence

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

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#easy #escape #later #make #only

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#battle #cause #consequences #defeat #defending

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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Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves. ↗

— William Petty

#consequence #father #here #killing #labor

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

#consequences #environmental #examined #genetically #hadn

I just love having a buzz all the time, regardless of the consequences. ↗

— Mark Roberts

#consequences #having #i #just #love

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#built #consequences #divine #his #i