"One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are."
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"An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects"
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"There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God."
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"I feel that all revolutionary causes should start with addressing misogyny."
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"Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect."
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"The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices."
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"Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause."
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"They don't subscribe to our sense of morality; they don't believe in an afterlife; they don't believe in a God or religion. And the only morality they recognize, therefore, is what will advance the cause or socialism."
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"Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity."
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"He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape."
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"Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy."
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"Everybody is worried about dying, but the cause of death is birth, so if you don't want to die, you don't get born!"
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"No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE."
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"It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle."
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"To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death."
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"[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you"
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"I was horny, but I was innocent 'cause I was a real-late bloomer and not particularly attractive. In fact, homely."
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"The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew."
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"The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is... lack of faith."
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"A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain."
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