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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."

Woodrow Wilson, American President

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

Gregory Bateson, British Scientist

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"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."

John Glover, American Actor

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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."

Georg Simmel, German Sociologist

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"We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

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"Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom."

Charles Horton Cooley, American Sociologist

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"Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause."

Jack Henry Abbott, American Author

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"One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded."

Tommy Chong, Canadian Actor

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"Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity."

Richard Owen, English Scientist

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"If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom."

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian Politician

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People

"I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel."

Day

"I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die."

People

"Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home."

Home

"I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second."

Love

"The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough."

Hurt

"From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman."

Beginning

"Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music."

Music

"This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet."

Kiss

"When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist."

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