"There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause."
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"It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr."
"Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace."
"Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect."
"In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial."
"If you can do one thing you thought was utterly impossible, it causes you to rethink your beliefs. Life is both subtler and more complex than some of us like to believe. So if you haven't done so already, review your beliefs and decide which ones you might change now and what you would change those beliefs to."
"We ain't meant to survive, cause it's a setup, And even though you're fed up, Huh, ya got to keep your head up."
"All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause."
"Cause mo better makes it mo better."
"Love's nationality is separate from all other religions, The lover's religion and nationality is the Beloved (God). The lover's cause is separate from all other causes Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries."
"You're getting angry, you know I can see. You're just jealous, cause you can't be me."
"I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God."
"I set it off with my own rhyme / cause I'm as ill as a convict who kills for phone time"
"As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect."
"Tis best to be silent in a bad cause."
"The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind!"
"Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the goods of others, whereas causes for taking life are rarer and more quickly destroyed."
"Ifit be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt."
"Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it."
"I actually think it's a good thing that men also have the option to take leave. `Cause sometimes women are breadwinners in the family."