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“All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.”
Andrew Carnegie
Honor
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Integrity
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Responsibility
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Consequences
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Morality
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“Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?”
Charles Lamb
Progress
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Science
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Change
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Civilization
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Consequences
3.
“Smoking cures weight problems, eventually.”
Steven Wright
Health
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Smoking
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Irony
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Dark Humor
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Consequences
4.
“Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.”
Steven Wright
Parenting
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Aging
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Humor
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Consequences
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Life
5.
“We fear the consequences if we make the wrong choice. So we decide to do nothing!”
Ankur Warikoo
Fear
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Decision
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Inaction
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Consequences
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Courage
6.
“I think it will take years before we can repair the damage done by that statement.”
Jimmy Carter
Damage
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Repair
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Time
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Consequences
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Statements
7.
“History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease.”
Jimmy Carter
History
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War
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Lessons
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Aggression
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Consequences
8.
“Americans long thought that nature could take care of itself-or that if it did not, the consequences were someone else’s problem. As we know now, that assumption was wrong; none of us is a stranger to environmental problems.”
Jimmy Carter
Environment
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Responsibility
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Nature
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Awareness
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Consequences
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“Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.”
Jimmy Carter
Aggression
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Conflict
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Society
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Consequences
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Peace
10.
“Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn’t deliver, the king cut off his head.”
Alvin Toffler
Accountability
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History
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Power
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Leadership
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Consequences
11.
“If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.”
Alvin Toffler
History
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Learning
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Future
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Change
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Consequences
12.
“Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.”
Alvin Toffler
Technology
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Progress
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Risks
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Consequences
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Innovation
13.
“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
V.S. Naipaul
Truth
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Lies
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Consequences
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Self-Deception
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Reality
14.
“It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.”
Ramakrishna
Desires
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Wisdom
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Consequences
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Awareness
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Discipline
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“My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Actions
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Responsibility
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Consequences
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Ethics
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Karma
16.
“When you drop bombs on the enemy, you drop those same bombs on yourself, your own country.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
War
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Enemy
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Consequences
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Destruction
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Peace
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“Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Anger
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Self-Control
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Awareness
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Consequences
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Mindfulness
18.
“For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.”
Pythagoras
Violence
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Cruelty
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Morality
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Nature
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Consequences
19.
“Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.”
Plutarch
Desire
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Consequences
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Regret
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Greed
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Suffering
20.
“It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.”
Plutarch
Speech
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Words
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Regret
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Wisdom
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Consequences
21.
“It Doesn’t Take Many People To Have A Bad Sense Of Humor To Get In Trouble At A Corporation.”
Scott Adams
Corporate
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Humor
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Workplace
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Society
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Consequences
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“When it all comes down to dust I will kill you if I must, I will help you if I can. When it all comes down to dust I will help you if I must, I will kill you if I can.”
Leonard Cohen
Morality
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Survival
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Dilemma
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Choice
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Consequences
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“All your stupid charities have armed the poor against you.”
Leonard Cohen
Charity
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Consequences
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Society
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Class
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Inequality
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“The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.”
Thomas Merton
Liberty
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Freedom
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Ethics
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Consequences
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Justice
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“Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.”
Thomas Merton
Mistakes
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Consequences
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Growth
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Awareness
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Life Lessons
26.
“The end of the world will be legal.”
Thomas Merton
Law
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Society
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Irony
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Power
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Consequences
27.
“Causes have effects, and if we lie to ourselves and to others, then we cannot expect to find truth and reality whenever we happen to want them. If we have chosen the way of falsity we must not be surprised that truth eludes us when we finally come to need it!”
Thomas Merton
Truth
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Reality
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Lies
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Choice
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Consequences
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“Mistakes are made in every other human endeavor. Why should nuclear weapons be exempt?”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Mistakes
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Consequences
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War
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Policy
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Reality
29.
“I had this child, and it destroyed my family.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Family
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Regret
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Loss
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Consequences
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Emotions
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“I hurt so many people.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Regret
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Reflection
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Consequences
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Emotions
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Accountability
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