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Third we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade there will be unmistakable consequences.

However great an evil immorality may be we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization however imperfect against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home they become latchkey kids and trust me the consequences of that are not good.

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.

Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.

This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States would have tragic consequences.

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.

It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now there has been some removal of the foreign forces.

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

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute it is a moral evil teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

So obviously any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior and even sometimes consequences and they don't want to hear any of that.

If religion were true its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion self-discipline that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

You know women are as promiscuous as men and yet of course people are inhibited from having an affair or a relationship because the real-world consequences are a drag.

It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.

Everything has positive and negative consequences.

I've been to war and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying and the consequences are serious.

I mean if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything but the core of the medical approach is that you try to identify pathologies which are subsystems within the human body or the larger system that are having undesirable consequences.