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"How very popular to say, 'spend more on this, expend more on that.' And of course, we all have our favorite causes; I know I do. But someone has to add up the figures. Every business has to do it, every housewife has to do it, [and] every government should do it."
"Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood."
"It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed."
"Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ."
"All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them."
"Inequality is the cause of all local movements."
"For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction."
"There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause."
"If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon."
"Supposing I live, I have got a work to do; and if I die, I shall still be engaged in the cause of Zion . . . If we live, we live to God; and if we die, we die to God; and we are God's, any way."
"Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause."
"The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions."
"Reincarnation is not an exclusively Hindu or Buddhist concept, but it is part of the history of human origin. It is proof of the mindstream's capacity to retain knowledge of physical and mental activities. It is related to the theory of interdependent origination and to the law of cause and effect."
"Disruption never helps your cause. ... It just looks like you're afraid to have rational discussion."
"A hard headed woman, a soft hearted man, been the cause of trouble ever since the world began."
"As your life continually poses new questions, it also poses new answers - which cause expansion. As your life presents new problems, it also presents new solutions - which cause expansion - and All-That-Is benefits from your willingness to live and consider and explore ... and expand."
"Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments."
"Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens."
"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."
"If you can fly, don't stop at the sky, 'cause there's footprints on the moon!"
