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"Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom."
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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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"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."
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"I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you."
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"The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes."
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"When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise."
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"The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works."
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"Some situations you cause yourself."
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"No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland."
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"Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause."
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"Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline."
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"There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point."
Life
"To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self."
Heroism
"Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling."
Nation
"So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational."
Discipline
"Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise."
Compromise
"A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory."
Conviction
"The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse."
Mind
"As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it."
Self-Awareness
"We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot."
Life
"A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius."
Talent
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