George Eliot Quotes
... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
George Eliot
Quotes to Explore
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A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.
Warren E. Burger
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When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
Park Chan-wook
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Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.
Maajid Nawaz
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Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
Frances Wright
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The one thing I've always demanded of the records I've made is that they be danceable.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.
Edmund Phelps
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No man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite.
Abraham Lincoln
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If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.
Bill Gates
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The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
E. W. Howe
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... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
George Eliot