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Cause Quotes
"You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection."
"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."
"I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause."
"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."
"I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems."
"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."
"If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are."
"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."
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."
"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.'"
"This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity."
"No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland."
"It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes."
"Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic."
"Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep."
"For me it's more important to look at each constituency individually and find a community I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause."
"The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists."
"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."
"The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works."
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