"Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice."
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"There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for."
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"Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced."
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"I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill."
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"Do not attempt to conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance."
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"The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love."
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"Comparing oneself to others in such terms as "Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I," he should neither kill nor cause others to kill."
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"Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!"
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"In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death"
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"Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie."
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"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."
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"Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?"
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"A life without a cause is a life without effect."
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"At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance."
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"..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget"
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"I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the plight of a single person...Out of my response to an individual develops an awareness of a problem to the community, then to the country, then to the world."
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"Beauty is not the cause of something, it is what it is."
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"The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one."
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"Got niggas reacting without a sinus cause what I'm working with is timeless."
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"Take photos with hater n-ggas and crop them. I am not them. I photoshop them out 'cause they don't understand what I'm about."
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