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Benjamin Disraeli Politician, Author
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"The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause."

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David Hume Philosopher, Historian
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"A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it that the idea of the one determines the mind to form the idea of the other, and the impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other."

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
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"I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content."

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy."

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Bono Musician, Activist
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"I'm as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes - and I will dare to say to you that I don't think of myself as a celebrity per se."

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Aristotle Philosopher
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"The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself."

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Aristotle Philosopher
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"Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles."

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