"The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works."

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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."

"Logic is a poor model of cause and effect."

"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."

"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."

"It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it."

"Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect."

"It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world."

"By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning."

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"Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship."

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