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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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"It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble."
Howard Baker
"It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble."
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"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."
Georg Simmel
"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."
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"Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are."
Meir Kahane
"Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are."
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"Every good cause is worth some inefficiency."
Paul Samuelson
"Every good cause is worth some inefficiency."
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"He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories."
Jerry B. Jenkins
"He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories."
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"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."
Miriam Makeba
"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."
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"I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause."
Angelina Jolie
"I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause."
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"I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause."
Jonathan Edwards
"I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause."
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"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."
Al Franken
"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."
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"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."
Ali Hoseini Khamenei
"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."
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"May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country."
Zebulon Pike
"May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country."
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"One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside."
Carly Simon
"One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside."
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"If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause."
Al Sharpton
"If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause."
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"It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world."
Melinda Gates
"It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world."
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"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."
Matthew Perry
"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."
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"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."
Robert Kennedy
"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."
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"It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story."
Young Buck
"It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story."
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"Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind."
John Tillotson
"Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind."
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"In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe."
Al Goldstein
"In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe."
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"He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others."
Samuel Foote
"He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others."
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"After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes."
John Owen
"After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes."
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"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?"
Paul Ryan
"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?"
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"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?"
Roger Wicker
"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?"
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"A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage."
James J. Gibson
"A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage."
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"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."
Pat Boone
"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."
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"Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics."
Liza Minnelli
"Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics."
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"Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage."
Jose Bergaman
"Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage."
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"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."
Charles Caleb Colton
"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."
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"I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families."
Asa Gray
"I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families."
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"Evil events from evil causes spring."
Aristophanes
"Evil events from evil causes spring."
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"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.'"
Demetri Martin
"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.'"
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"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."
Arnold Bennett
"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."
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"In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial."
Richard Armour
"In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial."
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"Some of the immediate causes of Jack Abramoff's troubles were some Indian elections that went bad for him."
Joshua Micah Marshall
"Some of the immediate causes of Jack Abramoff's troubles were some Indian elections that went bad for him."
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"Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline."
Tony Blair
"Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline."
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"The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery."
Joseph Butler
"The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery."
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"So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair."
Antonin Artaud
"So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair."
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"Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town."
George Carlin
"Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town."
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"I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems."
Helen Reddy
"I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems."
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"We can not underestimate the potential harm North Korea's capabilities can cause for the rest of the world."
Zach Wamp
"We can not underestimate the potential harm North Korea's capabilities can cause for the rest of the world."
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"No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland."
Frank Robinson
"No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland."
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"The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause."
Henri Bergson
"The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause."
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"Grief causes suffering and disease."
Daniel D. Palmer
"Grief causes suffering and disease."
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"All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble."
Raymond Hull
"All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble."
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"We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things."
Friedrich August von Hayek
"We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things."
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"More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament."
Alva Myrdal
"More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament."
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"Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense."
Phaedrus
"Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense."
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"I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all."
Gabriel Byrne
"I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all."
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"It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq."
John Abizaid
"It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq."
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