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Iris DeMent

"I've always written about things that cause me to feel something."

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"I've always written about things that cause me to feel something."

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"Poverty is not the root cause of crime."

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"This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity."

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"I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families."

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"Physical action [paudgalik kriya] will give only worldly fruits; it will not go in vain. If you plant sugar cane, you will eat sweet food and if you plant bitter gourd, you will eat bitter food. Plant whichever taste appeals to you and if you want liberation [Moksha], then don't plant anything. Stop sowing seeds altogether."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"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 don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems."

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"You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"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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"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."

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"Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music."
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"I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things."
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"Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money."
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"Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had."
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"I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music."
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"This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it."
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"I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else."
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"My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!"
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"For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people."
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"I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest."
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