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The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.

Since our economy is closely allied with that of foreign countries, not one of us can be indifferent to what consequences these disturbances can have at home and abroad.

Hjalmar Schacht

The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives.

If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.

Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I just love having a buzz all the time, regardless of the consequences.

If a man will make a purchase of a chance he must abide by the consequences.

In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.

Everything we do has consequences.

Dennis Potter

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