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"Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn’t necessarily do it in chronological order, though."
"When I was young I never believed that Australia was anything else except blessed. I thought it was a little dull when I was young, but that was 'cause I was a snob."
"Love is the cause of unity in all things."
"The word 'cause' is an altar to an unknown god."
"Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed"
"The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world."
"Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause."
"It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob."
"Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it."
"The best way to know any future is to cause one."
"Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure."
"Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things."
"We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh"
"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement."
"In war, important events result from trivial causes."
"You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, 'cause if you're not a friend to yourself, you're an enemy to yourself and if someone's a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves."
"....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle."
"We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days are in fact here for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives."
"We are not saints. We know we make mistakes, but at least our heart is with the right cause."
"An investment decision in the common stock of a company frequently involves a whole lot of factors interacting ... the one thing that causes the most trouble is when you combine a bunch of these together, you get this lollapalooza effect."
