"Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat."

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"Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat."

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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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"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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"I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow."

Brigham Young, American Leader

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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."

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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."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Cause there's only one reason for doing anything that you set out to do. if you don't want to be the best, then there's no reason going out and trying to accomplish anything."

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"Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune."

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"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."

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"A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves."

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"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."

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"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge."

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"A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams."

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"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work."

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"We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful."

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"As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles."

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"There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice."

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