"Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want."
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"Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?"
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"There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for."
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"It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue"
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"I don't think about returning to the streets, 'cause I don't have any plans to return to the streets. I'm at another level in my life. Returning to the street - I still be in my streets when I get time to, when it's necessary."
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"Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are."
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"For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself."
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"It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem."
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"Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements."
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"cause down the shore everything's all right"
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"Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!"
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"It's not the lack of resources that cause failure, it's the lack of resourcefulness that causes failure."
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"Love is the energizing elixir of the Universe, the cause and effect of all Harmony."
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"If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!"
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"She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak."
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"Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary."
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"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion."
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"One great cause of failure of young men in business is lack of concentration."
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"Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, 'cause I've never been free. I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is."
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"The law of Karma is the law of causation."
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