His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
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Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.
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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
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A man does what he must in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures and that is the basis of all human morality.
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Every great decision creates ripples like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.
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It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing to accept those consequences and viewing rejection as a learning experience that will bring you closer to success, will not only help you to conquer the
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If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences suicide. Or murder.
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Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you out of love takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.
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It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
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The hard core intentionalist expresses only the most remote concern for consequences usually, some vague, distant utopia. But this is, in most cases, a rationalization. His real satisfaction comes from a sense of doing the right thing even when r
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It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
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I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
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I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot.. When you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
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In nature there are neither rewards not punishmentsthere are consequences.
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Freedom is being able to live with the consequences of your decisions.
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While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
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Never do anything that you aren't prepared to face the true consequences of.
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All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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I'm so happy to be rich, I'm willing to take all the consequences.
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Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.
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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
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Every great decision creates rippleslike a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.
If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine if you can make him believe that those who reject that doctrine are doomed to eternal perdition if you then give that man power, and by means of his ignorance blind him to the ulterior consequences of his own act,-he will infallibly persecute those who deny his doctrine.
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