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Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence. ↗

— Laura Linney

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For each of our actions there are only consequences. ↗

— James Lovelock

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For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced. ↗

— Arthur Machen

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People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

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The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions. ↗

— George Tenet

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