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The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree...

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Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make ev...

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

You are reformed, you may be a better man, but you are not a different man. How can you convince you...

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In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from begi...

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Forgiveness does not wipe away the consequences of the sin. The consequences are borne by somebody.

There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Ju...

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we ha...

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When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, ver...

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Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo t...

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She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had chang...

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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. Tha...

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Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this--in the pursuit of freedom, the innocent...

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There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Th...

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The Amulet of Samarkand. It was Simon Lovelace's. Now it is yours. Soon it will be Simon Lovelace's ...

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If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in ea...

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Why can’t I do it?” [Isabel] asked….“Do what?”“Just forget about everything. Just go somewhere and g...

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One of the most curious consequences of quantum physics is that a particle like an electron can seem...

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Marcus du SautoyThe Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

That’s just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don’t want to take no consequences ...

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Mark TwainThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any me...

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It is certain that there can be no work in political economy on any other than an altruistic basis.....

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Max WeberEssays in Economic Sociology

Your intentions will be good. Without consideration and forethought, however, your actions could sti...

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It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the th...

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Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the c...

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It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, ch...

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To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they h...

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I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction. I like science fiction where there's a sci...

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This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no othe...

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Simon ArmitageThe Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation

I believe instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. Unless you're willing to ta...

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Streams of consequence flow from every action, and from every conflict there are two paths by which ...

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Every choice has its consequences. Some more than others

Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not." "Doesn't she? Don't all o...

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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

If a man loses his money through unwise market speculation or by playing the horses, he has been pun...

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If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pep...

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If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more...

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There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.

He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.