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Cause Quotes
"Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything."
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"Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town."
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"I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause."
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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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"As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy."
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"The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery."
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"I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all."
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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?"
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"In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents."
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"He who feels compelled to consider the consequences of these facts cannot but realize that the specific sensibility of nerves for certain impressions is not enough, since all nerves are sensitive to the same cause but react to the same cause in different ways."
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"Poverty is not the root cause of crime."
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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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"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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"Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened."
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"If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause."
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"He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others."
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"It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly."
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"To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness."
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"The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic."
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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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"It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice."
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"There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?"
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