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Cause Quotes


"We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances."


"It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it."


"The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters."


"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."



"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."


"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."


"I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan."


"I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes."


"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."


"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."


"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."



"Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad."



"Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything."



"Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma."



"I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up."


"We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things."


"Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense."


"Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate."


"I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause."


"To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery."


"It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing."



"Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey?"


"Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom."


"A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage."
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