"We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances."

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"We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances."

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"Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"Poverty is not the root cause of crime."

Rush Limbaugh, American Entertainer

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"This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity."

William Jennings Bryan, American Lawyer

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"I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families."

Asa Gray, American Scientist

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"Physical action [paudgalik kriya] will give only worldly fruits; it will not go in vain. If you plant sugar cane, you will eat sweet food and if you plant bitter gourd, you will eat bitter food. Plant whichever taste appeals to you and if you want liberation [Moksha], then don't plant anything. Stop sowing seeds altogether."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do."

George Linnaeus Banks, English Writer

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"I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems."

Helen Reddy, Australian Actress

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"You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection."

Morris West, Australian Writer

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"A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn't open to anywhere good."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."

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"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."

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"To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science."

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"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."

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"It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded."

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"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."

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"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

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"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."

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"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."

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