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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer

Men, Fools, Ultimate

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.
Christopher Hampton

Life, Great, Human

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
W. H. Auden

Marriage, Time, Happy

In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing, while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized.
Rick Perry

Government, Lost, Become

If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.
Brian Eno

Time, Long, Same

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
Peter Ustinov

Find, Three, Almost

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
Emile M. Cioran

Mind, Flesh, Inflicts

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
Emile M. Cioran

History, Fear, Boredom

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Life, Work, Creativity

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
Denis Diderot

Good, Government, Bad

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
Daisaku Ikeda

Happiness, Nature, Failure

There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.
Steve Forbes

Life, Money, Power

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
Francis Schaeffer

Life, True, Christian

America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds in Iraq. Many others will need mental and emotional rehabilitation before they can return to normal life.
John Olver

Life, Good, Emotional

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.
Muhammad Yunus

Family, Money, Women

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Al Bernstein

Success, Often, Direction

I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
Imran Khan

Islam, Bad, Lose

I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
Sachin Tendulkar

Give, Cricket, Serious

I felt like I was living in some sort of video game and people pre-empting every move I made, obviously as a result of accessing my private information.
Sienna Miller

Game, Made, Living

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.
Emma Thompson

Themselves, Leave, Less

My mother has never approved of high heels. As a result, I have never been able to walk in high heels - and they were all I ever wanted. So of course, my daughter has two pairs.
Emma Thompson

Mother, Two, Wanted

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
Madeleine L'Engle

Love, Insane, Illness

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.
Vivienne Westwood

Life, Science, Confusion

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.
Martha Beck

Experience, Living, Become

Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a 'shellacking' in the November 2010 elections. That shellacking was primarily the result of massive policy overreach when he had a Democratic Congress in his pocket.
John Podhoretz

Lost, Through, Himself

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.
John Podhoretz

Political, Game, Writing

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
Quentin Crisp

Freedom, Simple, Boredom

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Reason, Fact, Call

I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.
Jesse Ventura

Knowledge, Patriotism, Heart

I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.
Carly Fiorina

Made, Decisions, Vote

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