"Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear."
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"I am a person who lives my life based on intention. I don't do anything without intention because intention determines the outcome of your life. It's like cause and effect."
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"The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors."
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"I remember as a child going around with "Votes For Women" balloons. I learnt early what it is to be snubbed for a good cause."
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"A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war."
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"Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest."
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"Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes."
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"In whatever system where the weight attached to the wheel should be the cause of motion of the wheel, without any doubt the center of the gravity of the weight will stop beneath the center of its axle. No instrument devised by human ingenuity, which turns with its wheel, can remedy this effect. Oh, speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest. Go and take you place with the seekers after gold."
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"O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the desire to make your nude figures reveal all."
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"The motive power is the cause of all life."
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"There is a silver lining to every cloud and there's some awesome songs that have come from some really like bad experiences, but they're great experiences 'cause then I've got some good songs so it's all good for me."
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"And I don't know how to be fine when I'm not 'Cause I don't know how to make a feeling stop."
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"Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration."
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"With global warming, I'm never going to time-travel. It's probably going to cause some major emission problems."
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"guilt is the cause of more marauders than history's most obscene disauders"
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"The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again."
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"Nothing comes into being without a cause and when all the conditions are created, there is nothing that can prevent the consequence."
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"A little reminder to those who don't back Obama and gay marriage. It's probably cause you're gay."
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"We have to recognize we've got some big problems on race, just like we got still big problems on crime, just like we got big problems on just about everything. But we also have to make sure that we've - draw confidence from the progress that we have made, 'cause otherwise, you get into this cycle of cynicism."
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"I've lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is."
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