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All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

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As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action. ↗

— John Olver

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Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed. ↗

— James Otis

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It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. ↗

— George Orwell

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Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there. ↗

— George Orwell

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For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

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The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool. ↗

— Ovid

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Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another. ↗

— Richard Owen

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Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality. ↗

— Bill Owens

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