"If you want change, create the causes."
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"If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance."
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"Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the true causes of their problems and from the concrete solutions of these problems."
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"Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering."
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"Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish."
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"The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment."
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"Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices."
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"God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause."
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"I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause."
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"Nothing exists without a cause, the original cause of this universe we call God."
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"Reasoning from the common course of nature, and without supposing any new interposition of the Supreme Cause, which ought always to be excluded from philosophy; what is incorruptible must also be ingenerable. The soul, therefore, if immortal, existed before our birth: And if the former existence noways concerned us, neither will the latter."
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"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary."
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"Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation."
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"The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble."
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"No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people."
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"Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man."
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"There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money."
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"Malebranche teaches that we see all things in God himself. This is certainly equivalent to explaining something unknown by something even more unknown. Moreover, according to him, we see not only all things in God, but God is also the sole activity therein, so that physical causes are so only apparently; they are merely occasional causes. ( Recherches de la vérité , Livre VI, seconde partie, chap. 3.) And so here we have essentially the pantheism of Spinoza who appears to have learned more from Malebranche than from Descartes."
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"Cause a little trouble. It’s good for you."
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"You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress."
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