"He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls."

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"He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls."

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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."

William James, American Philosopher

Cause, Choice, Difference, Man

"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Cause, Causes, Effect

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

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Cause, Now, Trouble

"Some situations you cause yourself."

Little Richard, American Musician

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"It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail."

Peter Marshall, Scottish Clergyman

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"Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime."

Tony Blair, English Statesman

Cause, Causes, Crime, Law, Order

"For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do."

George Linnaeus Banks, English Writer

Cause, Future, Needs, Wrong

"I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity."

Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet

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"It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation on the right."

Elizabeth A. Sherman, American Educator

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement."

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"Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."

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"Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling .... When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and [yet] with certain modifications, they may be, and they are delightful, as we every day experience."

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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."

"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."

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

"Some situations you cause yourself."

"It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail."

"Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime."

"For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do."

"I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity."

"It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation on the right."

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

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"A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement."

"Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."

"A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood."

"Dangers by being despised grow great."

"To innovate is not to reform."

"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants."

"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

"What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man."