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Cause Quotes
"If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause."
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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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"It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give."
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"I stick my neck out for nobody. I'm the only cause I'm interested in."
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"If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game."
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"Girls Incorporated of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey continues to advance their cause and to strengthen their community by aspiring to open a Girl's Center for Philadelphia."
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"Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries."
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"By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?"
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"I think that climatic changes have a natural causes according many geological data... I am very glad to sign the U.S. Senate's report of scientists against the theory of man-made global warming."
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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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"Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude."
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"We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that."
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"For every expert that says humans are the cause of "climate change" there are 10 more who say we aren't."
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"To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world."
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"The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works."
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"But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis."
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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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"It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes."
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"Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly."
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"I'm not fighting any causes. I'm black, everybody can see that, but I am a storyteller for the masses."
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"Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators."
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"Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat."
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"As much purity one has within, his external circumstances will be that much more favorable. As much impurity there is within, there will be a corresponding amount of unfavorable external circumstances."
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"This world is not without causes. There is Moksha [ultimate liberation] when one's causes stops. There is Moksha where everyone's 'claim' is completed. Without a cause, effect does not happen."
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"Physical action [paudgalik kriya] will give only worldly fruits; it will not go in vain. If you plant sugar cane, you will eat sweet food and if you plant bitter gourd, you will eat bitter food. Plant whichever taste appeals to you and if you want liberation [Moksha], then don't plant anything. Stop sowing seeds altogether."
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