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Robert Smithson

"Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future."

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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."

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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."

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

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"Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town."

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"Don't speak of action [effect]. Don't serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause."

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"In a just cause the weak will beat the strong."

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

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

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"There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things."

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

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