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Cause Quotes
"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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"Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics."
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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."
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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.'"
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"I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down."
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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.'"
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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."
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"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."
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"I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems."
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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."
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"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story."
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"If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble."
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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."
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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?"
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"The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary."
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"And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting."
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"Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice."
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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."
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"No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland."
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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."
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"Poverty is not the root cause of crime."
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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."
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"Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip."
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"More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament."
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"To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors."
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"He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others."
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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."
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