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"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."
George Aiken
"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."
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"If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought."
Dante Alighieri
"If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought."
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"I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes."
Jack L. Chalker
"I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes."
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"Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad."
Manly Hall
"Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad."
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"It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr."
Saint Augustine
"It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr."
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"Heroism in a bad cause."
Karel Reisz
"Heroism in a bad cause."
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"If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause."
Wendell Phillips
"If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause."
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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
"It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail."
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"Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause."
Homer
"Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause."
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"If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom."
William Lyon Mackenzie King
"If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom."
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"Let's cause some senators distress."
Peggy Noonan
"Let's cause some senators distress."
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"A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance."
Henri Poincare
"A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance."
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"The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery."
Nagarjuna
"The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery."
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"It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them proliferate, and my songs have contributed a lot to that cause as well."
David Friedman
"It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them proliferate, and my songs have contributed a lot to that cause as well."
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"I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail."
Wendell L. Wilkie
"I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail."
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"My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery."
John Cleveland
"My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery."
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"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."
Brock Yates
"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."
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"Every cause produces more than one effect."
Herbert Spencer
"Every cause produces more than one effect."
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"All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it."
Charles Fillmore
"All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it."
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"To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering."
Gwen John
"To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering."
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"Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom."
Charles Horton Cooley
"Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom."
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"To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm."
Harry Houdini
"To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm."
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"Southerners can never resist a losing cause."
Margaret Mitchell
"Southerners can never resist a losing cause."
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"You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself."
James Cameron
"You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself."
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"As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid."
Adolf Hitler
"As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid."
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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
"I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose."
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"I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level."
Olga Korbut
"I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level."
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"Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause."
Jack Henry Abbott
"Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause."
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"All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems."
Shelley Winters
"All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems."
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"Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes."
Vladimir Lenin
"Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes."
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"The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error."
William Jennings Bryan
"The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error."
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"Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything."
Wayne Kramer
"Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything."
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"It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world."
Cameron Diaz
"It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world."
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"A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep."
William C. Bryant
"A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep."
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"I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down."
Mitch Hedberg
"I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down."
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"It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world."
Friedrich August von Hayek
"It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world."
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"Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense."
Austin O'Malley
"Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense."
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"The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary."
Karl Liebknecht
"The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary."
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"Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity."
Richard Owen
"Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity."
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"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."
Albert Schweitzer
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."
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"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.'"
Paul Watzlawick
"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.'"
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"To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery."
Richard Hooker
"To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery."
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"By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning."
Michael Behe
"By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning."
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"Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma."
Serge Lang
"Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma."
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"I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up."
Jim Capaldi
"I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up."
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"It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing."
Andrew Young
"It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing."
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"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."
John Hall
"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."
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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
"Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime."
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"Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent."
E. M. Forster
"Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent."
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"What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does."
Bill Moyers
"What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does."
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