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Ziggy Marley Musician
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"Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted."

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Karl Kraus Playwright, Journalist
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"So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation."

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Ingmar Bergman Film Director, Screenwriter
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"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."

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Isaac Newton Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
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"Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same."

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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
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"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."

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Francis Bacon Philosopher, Statesman
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"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."

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"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."

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Margaret Thatcher Politician
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"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."

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Mark Vonnegut Physician, Author
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"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."

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Joseph Stalin Politician, Revolutionary
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"One of the successes of the cause of the friends of peace is the ratification of the Franco-Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance."

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