It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by the end of the week.
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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things - I am tempted to think there are no little things.
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I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth.
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Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.
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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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When anger rises, think of the consequences
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful.
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I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven.
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What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences of his own folly. With a little wisdom and foresight, surely it is not yet necessary to forsake life in the fresh air and in the warmth of the sunlight. What a paradox if our own cleverness in science should force us to live underground with the moles.
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If a man will make a purchase of a chance he must abide by the consequences
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If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education
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Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
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Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way
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I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
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The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences
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There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war
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We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.
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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
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In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
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Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
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The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten
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Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house
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Where there's smoke, there's fire
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