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"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement."
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"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."
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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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"A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn't open to anywhere good."
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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."
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"I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you."
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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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"This world is not without causes. There is Moksha [ultimate liberation] when one's causes stops. There is Moksha where everyone's 'claim' is completed. Without a cause, effect does not happen."
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"To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world."
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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."
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"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."
Beauty

"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
Information

"Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable."
Evil

"Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another."
Reason

"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."
Criticism

"Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch."
Faith

"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake."
Art

"The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink."
Life

"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."
Family

"Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient."
Communication
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