#sequences

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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The best doctors and the best hospitals in America, if they cannot get the patient information they need when they need it, it can lead to morbid consequences: Higher mortality. ↗

— Timothy Murphy

#best #cannot #consequences #doctors #get

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#consequences #consists #wisdom

The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#africa #african #beyond #central #consequences

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#civilised #consequences #ennobling #eyes #itself

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#consequences #heroic #me #ordinary #ordinary people

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#god #later #laws #men #never

My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#causing #consequences #country #crisis #deserves

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences. ↗

— Jack Welch

#choices #consequences #make #such #them

Every second is mapped out and he has this total childish fascination with color and shapes and sequences. ↗

— Meg White

#color #every #every second #fascination #mapped