"If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause."

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"If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause."

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"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."

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"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement."

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C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes."

Claudia Christian, American Actress

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"A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep."

William C. Bryant, American Poet

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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."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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"As much purity one has within, his external circumstances will be that much more favorable. As much impurity there is within, there will be a corresponding amount of unfavorable external circumstances."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise."

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"Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms."

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"Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress."

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"Power is every stealing from the many to the few."

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