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It's a blast to watch. It's a lot more interesting live than it is on record. I mean, it really is a theatrical event. It's a sporting event! Cause you never know what's gonna happen.
Author:
John Zorn
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
Author:
Florenz Ziegfeld
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The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.
Author:
Xun Zi
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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
Author:
Mao Zedong
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I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause.
Author:
Cole Younger
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I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.
Author:
Marguerite Young
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Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.
Author:
Brigham Young
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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
Author:
Andrew Young
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The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.
Author:
Brock Yates
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The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.
Author:
Xenophon
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I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.
Author:
John Woolman
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Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.
Author:
Alexander Woollcott
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Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time.
Author:
Tobias Wolff
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I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
Author:
Wendell Wilkie
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Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey?
Author:
Roger Wicker
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Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem.
Author:
Margaret Wheatley
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Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
Author:
Paul Wellstone
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Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
Author:
Simone Weil
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It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.
Author:
Simone Weil
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My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.
Author:
George Weah
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A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'
Author:
Paul Watzlawick
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The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.
Author:
Mercy Warren
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We can not underestimate the potential harm North Korea's capabilities can cause for the rest of the world.
Author:
Zach Wamp
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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
Author:
Sam Walton
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It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'
Author:
Neale Walsch
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For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.
Author:
David Wallace
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There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.
Author:
Alfred Wallace
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Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.
Author:
Lech Walesa
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So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet.
Author:
Diane Wakoski
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Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
Author:
Jack Wagner
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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
Author:
Voltaire
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The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
Author:
Swami Vivekananda
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Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.
Author:
Sid Vicious
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But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health.
Author:
Ann Veneman
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I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply.
Author:
Ann Veneman
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When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.
Author:
Wietse Venema
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So I am concerned about the amount of time we have to make it, cause it doesn't matter how much money you have, you can't create more time.
Author:
Matthew Vaughn
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The cause of these global changes is fundamentally due to the Sun and its effect on the Earth as it moves about in its orbit. Not from man-made activities.
Author:
William Vaughan
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More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause.
Author:
Harry Vardon
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Here is also to be noted, that the cause of the institution was to be a memorial, to testify that Christ's body was given, and his blood shed for us.
Author:
William Tyndale
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Forget your enemies. It's your friends you frustrate that cause all the problems.
Author:
Michael Tucker
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.
Author:
Robert Toombs
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
Author:
Lily Tomlin
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I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.
Author:
Howard Thurman
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The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
Author:
Mac Thornberry
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If we are able to get inside the music and inhabit it convincingly enough, it will cause everyone to find each other in this new psychological space. And that's most exciting.
Author:
Michael Thomas
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In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
Author:
Cal Thomas
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Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.
Author:
Edward Teller
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Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence.
Author:
Robert Teeter
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If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.
Author:
Jeremy Taylor
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Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.
Author:
A. Taylor
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The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.
Author:
Jalal Talabani
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
Author:
William Taft
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
Author:
Tacitus
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It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way.
Author:
Taylor Swift
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On the justice of the cause of Prince Edouard, adding insurances of greatest sincerity to help it and support it and give him on all occasions of the marks of the same feelings as I have for the King his father.
Author:
Henry Stuart
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When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.
Author:
Joe Strummer
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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
Author:
Anna Strong
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A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.
Author:
Potter Stewart
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If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.
Author:
Laurence Stern
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Author:
Stendhal
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I was pleased when the picture was over I fit in all right and I spoke well enough as I said before, cause I was scared to death there for a minute. I mean, you're doing a scene with somebody like that or they're watching you or something, you'd better come up with something.
Author:
Rod Steiger
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I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.
Author:
Layne Staley
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What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
Author:
Benjamin Spock
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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Playing live for a good cause is something I like to do. I like the response of the Indian people, I like their depth and the way they look beyond the surface of things.
Author:
Jeremy Spencer
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
Author:
Herbert Spencer
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I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
Author:
Wole Soyinka
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
Author:
Sophocles
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Author:
Sophocles
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Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.
Author:
Robert Smithson
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Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.
Author:
Ian Smith
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Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.
Author:
Goldwin Smith
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It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.
Author:
Gerrit Smith
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Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.
Author:
Chad Smith
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I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.
Author:
Yakov Smirnoff
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In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents.
Author:
Agnes Smedley
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
Author:
Manmohan Singh
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Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.
Author:
Matthew Simpson
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I'm a real rebel with a cause.
Author:
Nina Simone
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One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.
Author:
Carly Simon
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You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.
Author:
Carly Simon
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Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.
Author:
Charles Simeon
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There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.
Author:
Mark Shields
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When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.
Author:
Mark Shields
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So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!
Author:
Billy Sherwood
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It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation on the right.
Author:
Elizabeth Sherman
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Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must attack proliferation and those nations that proliferate with chemical, biological and nuclear type devices, because that can cause the most catastrophic results.
Author:
Hugh Shelton
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I'm talking about science on the leading edge, where it's not clear which way things are going be cause we don't know, and I'm dealing with areas which we don't know about.
Author:
Rupert Sheldrake
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Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.
Author:
Neil Sheehan
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What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war?
Author:
Cindy Sheehan
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But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.
Author:
Christopher Shays
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I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness.
Author:
Christopher Shays
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
Author:
Al Sharpton
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When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.
Author:
Natan Sharansky
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Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?
Author:
Tupac Shakur
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The chief cause of problems is solutions.
Author:
Eric Sevareid
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If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble.
Author:
David Selznick
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Look, a lot of women would be turned off with hearing me say how hot I think Brad Pitt is! Know what I mean? So I probably don't help my cause.
Author:
Ryan Seacrest
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We've got to figure out a way to cause communities to also want them, the political, organized bodies.
Author:
Lee Scott
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At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Author:
Albert Schweitzer
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I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.
Author:
Arnold Schoenberg
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From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are.
Author:
Boz Scaggs
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This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level.
Author:
Boz Scaggs
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The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.
Author:
Jean Savarin
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Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.
Author:
Marilyn Savant
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One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.
Author:
Fritz Sauckel
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I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.
Author:
Bernard Sanders
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Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.
Author:
Paul Samuelson
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The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis.
Author:
Ali Saleh
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I don't roll like that but I've never been with a hooker either. Yeah, that's good to say in an interview cause I feel bad a little because people grew up watching me and that's a little disturbing.
Author:
Bob Saget
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God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom ho named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children.
Author:
Joseph Rutherford
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My plan was to land in Red Square, but there were too many people and I thought I'd cause casualties.
Author:
Mathias Rust
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Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.
Author:
Dean Rusk
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I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.
Author:
Ann Rule
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I love acting with kids, cause they're great acting partners. They're totally present. Even when they're acting, they're still available and you can crack them up or something weird will happen and they'll go with it.
Author:
Mark Ruffalo
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Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.
Author:
Charles Ruff
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We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.
Author:
Mike Rounds
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As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world.
Author:
Nathan Rothschild
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Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?
Author:
Ernestine Rose
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The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?
Author:
Ernestine Rose
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The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
Author:
Richard Rorty
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Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.
Author:
Elihu Root
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I could care less about what people think. I'm a Devil Without A Cause.
Author:
Kid Rock
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That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white kids are going to steal rap.
Author:
Kid Rock
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No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland.
Author:
Frank Robinson
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I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.
Author:
Julia Roberts
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We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.
Author:
George Ripley
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For me it's more important to look at each constituency individually and find a community I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause.
Author:
Adam Rickitt
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I have no great urge to be minister of this or minister of that, but instead would feel incredible blessed to have the opportunity to be a champion for a constituency and fight for their cause.
Author:
Adam Rickitt
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Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she's real funny, but lately it's all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain't funny. No giggles there.
Author:
Andy Richter
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The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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For example, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every four minutes someone is diagnosed, and every nine minutes someone dies.
Author:
Kevin Richardson
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Some situations you cause yourself.
Author:
Little Richard
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A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.
Author:
David Ricardo
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We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.
Author:
Publius Renatus
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Heroism in a bad cause.
Author:
Karel Reisz
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It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.
Author:
Godfrey Reggio
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I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.
Author:
Helen Reddy
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I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Author:
Ronald Reagan
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
Author:
Quintilian
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I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!
Author:
Richard Pryor
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I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.
Author:
Elvis Presley
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A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.
Author:
Henri Poincare
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
Author:
Edgar Poe
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
Author:
Plutarch
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The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this advance was the final separation of East from West, and the end of the Mediterranean unity.
Author:
Henri Pirenne
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Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.
Author:
Peace Pilgrim
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
Author:
Zebulon Pike
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The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.
Author:
Jean Piaget
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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
Author:
Wendell Phillips
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Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
Author:
Phaedrus
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I can tell if someone is talking to me because I'm on "Friends" or cause they just think I'm neat. You know I don't think I've ever spent more than five or ten minutes with somebody who was ogling me because they recognized me from the show.
Author:
Matthew Perry
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Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.
Author:
Richard Perle
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Foreman told Ray to plead guilty and he'd then give his brother $500, if Ray didn't cause any problems at the guilty plea hearing, and he could take that $500 and hire a lawyer to set aside the plea. Foreman actually put that in writing.
Author:
William Pepper
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I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development.
Author:
Li Peng
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If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.
Author:
Dave Pelzer
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Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
Author:
Lester Pearson
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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
Author:
Norman Peale
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Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
Author:
Ron Paul
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Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.
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Chris Patten
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All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
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Blaise Pascal
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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
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Blaise Pascal
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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
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Blaise Pascal
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I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.
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Anne Parillaud
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Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.
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Saskya Pandita
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Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
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Saskya Pandita
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It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
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Thomas Paine
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Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.
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David Packard
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Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.
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Richard Owen
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The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.
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Ovid
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Time, motion and wine cause sleep.
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Ovid
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So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves.
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Marie Osmond
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In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties.
Author:
Solomon Ortiz
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Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
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Austin O'Malley
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I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it's like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back.
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Alex O'Loughlin
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There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems.
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Edward Olmos
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And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.
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Marvin Olasky
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Average Americans are going to win this, not me. And not just your organization, not just the providers of health care, but the American people are going to cause this to happen. But they have to keep sending those cards and letters.
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Charlie Norwood
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Let's cause some senators distress.
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Peggy Noonan
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You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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To set the cause above renown.
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Henry Newbolt
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Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.
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Horatio Nelson
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Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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Well, I think I've made 44 films and only like four times I've played real characters I'm just drawn to people who have a pioneer spirit, this extraordinary energy and commitment to their cause.
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Liam Neeson
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To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.
Author:
Grace Napolitano
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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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Nagarjuna
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More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.
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Alva Myrdal
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Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.
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Alfred Musset
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He who feels compelled to consider the consequences of these facts cannot but realize that the specific sensibility of nerves for certain impressions is not enough, since all nerves are sensitive to the same cause but react to the same cause in different ways.
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Johannes Muller
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Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause.
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Johannes Muller
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Traveling has a major impact on what I do, cause all over the world I'm meeting all kinds of people. And relationships is the second major impact that I have. I just enjoy the variety that the world has to offer.
Author:
Jason Mraz
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What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
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Bill Moyers
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Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
Author:
Johann Most
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College on for sure... I'm scared to say it cause it sounds like a family movie, but if my kid was 7, 8, 9 I would take her to this quickly and gladly!
Author:
Rob Morrow
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Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
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Toni Morrison
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Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
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John Morley
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It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.
Author:
Robin Morgan
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I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter.
Author:
Daniel Morgan
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Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.
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Sun Moon
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Cause there's only one reason for doing anything that you set out to do. if you don't want to be the best, then there's no reason going out and trying to accomplish anything.
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Joe Montana
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At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.
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James Monroe
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Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.
Author:
Kevin Mitnick
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Southerners can never resist a losing cause.
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Margaret Mitchell
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War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.
Author:
Ludwig Mises
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There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
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Marion Milner
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The principal cause of war is war itself.
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C. Mills
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A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
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John Mill
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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
Author:
Ed Miliband
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If their were more Franklin operations it could help the cause much more than right wing activity.
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Tom Metzger
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There have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it's like the primary cause of death. I wonder if there's a certain energy that attracts that.
Author:
Rose McGowan
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Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.
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Phyllis McGinley
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The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.
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Andrew McCarthy
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I noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that's to avoid confusion, cause if there were you wouldn't know if someone was stuttering. 'Yes, hello I'd like some b-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries!' and D-batteries that's hard for foreigners. 'Yes, I would like de batteries.'
Author:
Demetri Martin
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It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
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Peter Marshall
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Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
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Christopher Marlowe
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
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Ed Markey
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And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources.
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Miriam Makeba
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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James Madison
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Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.
Author:
Charles Mackay
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I am pleased to be considered a 'denier' in this cause if this puts me in the class with those who defied prevailing 'scientific consensus' that the earth was flat and that the earth was the not the center of the universe.
Author:
William Lyons
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Cause I won't repeat myself, the way I dress and look.
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Kelly Lynch
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Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
Author:
Clare Luce
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If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there.
Author:
James Longstreet
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I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness.
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Jay London
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After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride.
Author:
Jay London
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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Vince Lombardi
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The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war.
Author:
Henry Lodge, Jr.
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Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
Author:
John Locke
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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Abraham Lincoln
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
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Rush Limbaugh
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The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.
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Karl Liebknecht
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Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom.
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Joe Lieberman
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Our safety at home and the cause of freedom abroad is largely contingent upon our success in Iraq.
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Ron Lewis
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The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.
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John Lewis
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Saying sulfates do not cause acid rain is the same as saying that smoking does not cause lung cancer.
Author:
Drew Lewis
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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C. Lewis
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Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
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George Lewes
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The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.
Author:
Edward Levi
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I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.
Author:
Annie Lennox
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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
Author:
Gottfried Leibniz
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It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being.
Author:
Gottfried Leibniz
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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Fran Lebowitz
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But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis.
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Kenneth Lay
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I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.
Author:
Wilfrid Laurier
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I shall have less cause to regret the carrying my intended purpose into effect, foreseeing that you may immediately fill with advantage, the vacancy which will presently happen.
Author:
Henry Laurens
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I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men.
Author:
James Larkin
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In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.
Author:
Walter Lang
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The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.
Author:
Corliss Lamont
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It's nice to go to small places where we had a lot of fans. They followed our career and it's kind of a way to say thank you to them and do it for a good cause.
Author:
Guy Lafleur
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With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate.
Author:
Gustav Krupp
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
Author:
Wayne Kramer
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I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.
Author:
Lajos Kossuth
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The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
Author:
Lajos Kossuth
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I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level.
Author:
Olga Korbut
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That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.
Author:
Henry Knox
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Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom.
Author:
William King
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Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.
Author:
Jack Kevorkian
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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
Author:
Charles Kettering
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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
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Rose Kennedy
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What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
Author:
Robert Kennedy
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The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
Author:
Edward Kennedy
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I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development.
Author:
Frank Kellogg
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I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.
Author:
Frank Kellogg
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It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.
Author:
Harvey Keitel
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I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.
Author:
Kim Jung
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American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.
Author:
Kim Jung
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They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.
Author:
Naomi Judd
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I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.
Author:
Angelina Jolie
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You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
Author:
Lyndon Johnson
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Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.
Author:
Jimmy Johnson
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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
Author:
Billy Joel
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He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories.
Author:
Jerry Jenkins
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
Author:
William James
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
Author:
William James
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People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.
Author:
Michael Jackson
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The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
Author:
William Inge
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Those who fight in God's cause will be victorious.
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Saddam Hussein
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O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause before Your Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed.
Author:
Jan Hus
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We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than the Monroe Doctrine. So that could be cited as a cause for intervention if and when it might become necessary.
Author:
E. Hunt
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
Author:
Elbert Hubbard
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
Author:
Vernon Howard
