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Cause Quotes
"I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill."
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"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."
89
"In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels."
66
"My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it."
64
"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."
59
"The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past."
55
"Conceit causes more conversation than wit."
55
"I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy."
52
"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."
33
"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."
29
"The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound."
27
"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."
27
"The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists."
27
"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."
26
"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.'"
24
"I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes."
23
"The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns."
23
"A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person."
22
"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."
22
"I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia."
21
"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."
21
"Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom."
20
"Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one."
20
"I think everyone holds back. I am always censoring myself and I'm sorry about it. But I always have to consider whether my remarks might cause someone pain."
20
"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."
20
"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."
19
"Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect."
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