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"Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause."
"So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation."
"I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it would help my art."
"Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes."
"Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same."
"If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace."
"Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule."
"Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web."
"Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted."
"Can placebos cause side effects? If so, are the side effects real?"
"I don't know if my wife left me because of my drinking or I started drinking 'cause my wife left me."
"If you're an addict, if you drink and you're putting a depressant into your body, it's going to cause serious problems."
"What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil."
"Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience."
"Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing."
"Introverts almost never cause me trouble and are usually much better at what they do than extroverts. Extroverts are too busy slapping one another on the back, team building, and making fun of introverts to get much done. Extroverts are amazed and baffled by how much some introverts get done and assume that they, the extroverts, are somehow responsible."
"Great causes and little men go ill together."
"One of the successes of the cause of the friends of peace is the ratification of the Franco-Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance."
"A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause"