"If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace."
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"The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause."
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"Life is an effort that deserves a better cause."
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"Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware."
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"What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?"
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"I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could."
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"[In 2004] That's how I got a relationship with Steve Jobs. Because I listened really hard to him cause he's the smartest guy I ever worked for."
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"Do what you want to do, and go where you're going to. Think for yourself, 'Cause I won't be there with you."
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"Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities."
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"Somebody has to keep score and I decided I was going to do it. I'm a born score-keeper and I realize, like an umpire, that my decisions may cause distress."
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"My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death."
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"Ill try the whole cause, and condemn you to death."
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"When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him."
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"Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them."
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"Stop at nothing to get the best work that you can get. Betray, violate, cause enormous harm."
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"And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope?"
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"The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have some cause; some antecedent, upon the existence of which it is invariably and unconditionally consequent."
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"Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication."
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"Uncertainty causes more anxiety than perhaps any other single factor."
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"Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity."
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