"Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs."

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"Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs."

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"They never fail who die in a great cause."

Lord Byron, British Poet

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Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

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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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"The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution."

John T. Flynn, American Critic

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"Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate."

Zbigniew Brzezinski, American Politician

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"The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters."

James Tobin, American Economist

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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."

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"In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival."

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"The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind."

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"The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular."

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"Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order."

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"The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received."

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"Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand."

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"At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel."

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"The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points."

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"Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses."

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"The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple."

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