"The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis."
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"Craving security is the cause of insecurity. Freedom is knowing that the only point of arrival is now."
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"Because these consequences are distributed globally, the problem masquerades as a distraction. Because the length of time between causes and consequences stretches out longer than we're used to dealing with, it gives us the illusion that we have the luxury of time. Neither of those things is true."
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"The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle"
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"Never let the children cry, Cause you got to tell Jah, Jah why"
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"Don't get disillusioned, no don't expect too much Cause if what you have is all you can get Just keep on trying It just ain't happened yet."
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"There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause."
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"We do not know a truth without knowing its cause."
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"I don't dare do anything anymore, 'cause I'm afraid it's not allowed."
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"Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly."
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"A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others."
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"I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact."
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"Music causes us to think eloquently."
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"Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes."
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"There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it."
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"Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect."
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"It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause."
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"Normally, I'm good at first dates, 'cause that's the only date I ever have, so I know how to control it and be confident."
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"There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes."
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"I always say neediness is the cause of suffering. I'm not the only one who says it. It's something I adopted and I believe."
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