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“Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.” Nicholas Sparks, “The Lucky One” - 2008

“Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.” Henry Kissinger, “The White House Years” - 1979

“When you’re young, you think everything you do is disposable.” Margaret Atwood, “The Blind Assassin” - 2000

“I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results.” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” - 1839

“The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“They suppress the truth rather than take the consequences of telling it, and in so doing prove themselves a part of the human family.” Frederick Douglass, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” - 1845

“Nor had I reflected upon this at first, and I rested in the shade of that ideal happiness as beneath that of the manchineel tree, without foreseeing the consequences.” Gustave Flaubert, “Madame Bovary” - 1856

“The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” - 1999

“if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you’d be doomed. You’d be as ruined as God.” Margaret Atwood, “The Blind Assassin” - 2000

“If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.” John Green, “Looking for Alaska” - 2005

“Good and evil both increase at compound interest.” C. S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity” - 1952

“When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

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