"I got addicted to lighting people up, just seeing people so happy 'cause they rediscovered what they're capable of and so that became my life's work."
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"Recollect your thoughts don't get caught up in the mix ,cause the media is full of dirty tricks."
"Every female wanna come up to me and show me how much they're not attracted to me... these minority women... they're the only women I can get cause everyone else is scared of me."
"It aint about black or white cause we`re human"
"Jill : What causes sibling rivalry? Tim : Having more than one kid!"
"The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level."
"I have been inspired by Martin Luther King and how he inspired a movement. I have learned that a cause must be organic; if it is to have an impact it must belong to those who join the movement and not those who lead it."
"I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery."
"Children in backseats cause accidents. Accidents in backseats cause children."
"Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause, and he stood up, swaying, more frightened than he had been that day, more frightened, perhaps, than he had been in his whole life."
"And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!"
"The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause."
"It is in the very nature of a beginning to carry with itself a measure of complete arbitrariness. Not only is it not bound into a reliable chain of cause and effect, a chain in which each effect immediately turns into the cause for future developments, the beginning has, as it were, nothing whatever to hold on to; it is as though it came out of nowhere in either time or space."
"The cause is hidden, but the result is known. [Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]"
"The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all."
"In an easy cause any man may be eloquent."
"Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself; for that power is produced by him either through craft or force; and both of these are suspected by the one who has been raised to power."
"Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always and everywhere at work; it strikes through causes and effects, and leaves nothing fixed and permanent."
"Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk."
"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak."