#sequences

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#brain #cannot #cave #clever #comprehend

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#only #punishments #rewards

We will smite the Jews where we meet them and whoever goes along with them must take the consequences. ↗

— Arthur Seyss-Inquart

#consequences #goes #jews #meet #must

How could he know this new dawn's light would change his life forever? Set sail to sea, but pulled off course by the light of golden treasure. ↗

— Metallica

#life #life-choices #change

I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort. ↗

— William Banting

#adds #am #any #bulk #comfortable

Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes. ↗

— Harry Browne

#acts #bear #care #consequences #free

Yeah, they look great, but that isn't a fantasy come true, Harry. That's a wood chipper in Playboy bunny clothing. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#consequences #dresden-files #fantasies #playboy #beauty

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture. Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#hatred #karma #death

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

#brains #determining #else #inescapable #just

Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#agreement #alleviate #america #central #consequences