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Cause Quotes


"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."


"Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship."


"Every good cause is worth some inefficiency."


"He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories."


"And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources."


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


"But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause."


"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."


"If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause."


"I can tell if someone is talking to me because I'm on "Friends" or cause they just think I'm neat. You know I don't think I've ever spent more than five or ten minutes with somebody who was ogling me because they recognized me from the show."



"What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents."



"It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story."


"Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind."



"In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe."



"He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others."


"Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?"



"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?"


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


"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."


"Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics."


"Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip."


"I noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that's to avoid confusion, cause if there were you wouldn't know if someone was stuttering. 'Yes, hello I'd like some b-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries!' and D-batteries that's hard for foreigners. 'Yes, I would like de batteries.'"


"A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it."


"Some of the immediate causes of Jack Abramoff's troubles were some Indian elections that went bad for him."


"The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery."


"Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town."


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


"No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland."


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


"More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament."


"I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all."
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