"Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'?"
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"Is insight dependent on a material process? Has insight a cause?"
"The reason we're getting bombed is 'cause we were on one side, and we're gonna remain on that side. We can't waver because these are our enemies right now. I'm sorry. I'm gonna say it out loud. The Arabs, that's right, are our enemies. That's right."
"Real gangster-ass Nerdfighters don't run from nothing... 'cause real gangster-ass Nerdfighters can't run fast."
"Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature."
"In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects."
"I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result."
"A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea."
"For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain."
"Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty."
"To know much is often the cause of doubting more."
"People look at me as some bruiser, but I want to entertain people. I want people to applaud. I want to be the cause of people being happy, their emotions changing, to tell me I did a good performance."
"We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause."
"We are finite and God will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us."
"Be present as the watcher of your mind - of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react."
"A sound-bite culture can't discuss science very well. Exactly what we're losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can't be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up."
"Seize the moment and dont squander it. Cause you never know when it all could be over."
"Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us."
"You're surprised by something, but you don't really know what surprised you; you recognize someone, but you don't really know what cues cause you to recognize that person."
"Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does."