#sequence

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#better #catastrophes #century #cnn #consequence

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

#belly #big #concealing #consequences #exposed

I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly. ↗

— Chris Martin

#consequences #extremely #i #particularly #speak

When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage. ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#control #created #everything #going #guarantees

A sequence works in a way a collection never can. ↗

— George Murray

#never #sequence #way #works

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#human #intentions #much #seems #sin