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Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.
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willpower
charity
consequences
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C.S. Lewis |
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If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt. The good and evil resulting from our words and deeds go on apportioning themselves, one assumes in a reasonably uniform and balanced way, throughout all the days to follow, including those endless days, when we shall not be here to find out, to congratulate ourselves or ask for pardon, indeed there are those who claim that this is the much talked of immortality.
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immortality
deeds
forgiveness
consequences
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José Saramago |
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There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.
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each-other
we
sense
consequences
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Wallace Stegner |
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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 they will return to port.
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responsibility
karma
pay-it-forward
spiritual-guidance
reciprocity
consequences
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Iris Murdoch |
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In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions.
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foresight
wealthy
environment
civilization
realization
rich
isolation
consequences
insight
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Jared Diamond |
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I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.
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responsibility
the-dead-girls-dance
decisions
consequences
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Rachel Caine |
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If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pepperoni, then not only will we never learn to make smart choices, we will also surrender the freedom to choose, because a choice without consequences is no choice at all.
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responsibility
freedom
choice
society
redemption
consequences
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Tom Robbins |
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WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?
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doubt
speaking-out
instinct
shame
consequences
guilt
instincts
voice
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Terry Tempest Williams |
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"Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not." "Doesn't she? Don't all of you? This is your first taste of the things which may come from your being powerful mages. People will offer you gold, status, even love. I want to know how you will react. If want to know if your teachers will release greedy, thoughtless monsters into the world."
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niko
sandry
testing
consequences
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Tamora Pierce |
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And then things would be fine. Then I'd be fine.
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fear
broken
alone
consequences
depressed
lonely
trauma
scared
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Sarah J. Maas |
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There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengeance, never a hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences.
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true
tool
fatal
limit
law
force
government
consequences
vengeance
sin
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Frank Herbert |
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Yeah, they look great, but that isn't a fantasy come true, Harry. That's a wood chipper in Playboy bunny clothing.
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consequences
fantasies
playboy
dresden-files
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Jim Butcher |
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Every little trifle, for some reason, does seem incalculably important today, and when you say of a thing that 'nothing hangs on it,' it sounds like blasphemy. There's never any knowing--(how am I to put it?)--which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it for ever.
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idleness
consequences
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E.M. Forster |
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There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.
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fate
history
destiny
consequences
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