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Aristotle Philosopher
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"Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite."

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Aristotle Philosopher
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"Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes."

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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
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"That great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God Himself, can never be unraveled by any industry of ours."

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Thomas A. Edison Inventor
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"I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure"

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk
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"The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68"

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Trey Parker Animator, Writer, Director
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"Basically ... out of all the ridiculous religion stories which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous—the silliest one I've ever heard is, 'Yeah ... there's this big giant universe and it's expanding, it's all gonna collapse on itself and we're all just here just 'cause ... just 'cause'. That, to me, is the most ridiculous explanation ever."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation."

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Mac Miller Rapper, Singer, Songwriter
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"I don't really leave my house too much, 'cause I don't like... it's funny, I don't really like to be high and famous at the same time."

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"Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes."

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