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David Bowie Musician, Actor
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"And you, You can be mean And I, I'll drink all the time 'Cause we're lovers, And that is a fact Yes we're lovers, And that is that"

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David Hume Philosopher, Historian
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"From causes which appear similar, we expect similar effects. This is the sum total of all our experimental conclusions."

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David Hume Philosopher, Historian
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"We may well ask, What causes induce us to believe in the existence of body? but 'tis vain to ask. Whether there be body or not? That is a point which we must take for granted in all our reasonings."

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Theologian
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"And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful”; and yet be on the right road. But this is where we find out whether we have begun in faith or in a burst of enthusiasm."

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Diogenes Laertius Philosopher
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"Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,-not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else."

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Diogenes Laertius Philosopher
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"But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated."

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
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"I know I exaggerated things, now I got it like that. Tuck my napkin in my shirt cause I'm just mobbin like that."

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
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"Damn where my roof just go, I'm somebody that you should know Get to shakin somethin cause that's what Drama produced it fo'"

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
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"She says I know you changed, I never see you cause you always busy doing thangs"

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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
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"When you say, "I have a sad heart," then you literally have a sad heart. If we looked inside your heart, we would find it affected by molecules that cause stress and damage, such as excessive amounts of adrenaline and cortisol."

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Al Gore Politician
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"Unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes."

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Chauncey Wright Philosopher
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"By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?"

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Chris Rock Comedian, Actor, Writer
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"When you die at 72, no matter what you die of, it's natural causes. Even if you get hit by a truck, it's natural causes. 'Cause if you was younger, you'd have got out the way!"

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