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Cause Quotes
"I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill."
87
"The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights."
68
"In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels."
53
"My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it."
47
"Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me."
45
"Conceit causes more conversation than wit."
44
"I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy."
42
"The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past."
36
"For me it's more important to look at each constituency individually and find a community I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause."
28
"Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it."
26
"The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound."
24
"The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists."
24
"A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'"
19
"Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic."
18
"We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than the Monroe Doctrine. So that could be cited as a cause for intervention if and when it might become necessary."
16
"A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person."
16
"If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are."
16
"Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal ideals."
16
"Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom."
15
"If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon."
15
"I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it's like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back."
14
"Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect."
13
"When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise."
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