"Men are handicapped when it comes to arguing, 'cause we have a need to make sense."
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"First causes are outside the realm of science."
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"Proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given condition is the immediate cause of that phenomenon. It must still be established that when this condition is removed, the phenomen will no longer appear."
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"At certain points if your life, you like doing more. I'm not sure what causes it or for what reasons; you just do it."
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"If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it is hard to be guilty."
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"Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything."
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"There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends."
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"The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible."
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"Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes ."
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"Mind is the cause; everything else is effect."
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"It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause."
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"According to the doctrine of chance, you ought to put yourself to the trouble of searching for the truth; for if you die without worshiping the True Cause, you are lost. "But," say you, "if He had wished me to worship Him, He would have left me signs of His will." He has done so; but you neglect them. Seek them, therefore; it is well worth it."
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"An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just."
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"Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra."
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"The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours."
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"Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed."
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"I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons for the cause of a war."
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"I would like to devote myself to the cause of parental alienation."
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"I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life."
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"We'll continue to see more and more brands integrate social causes, charitable components and environmental issues as underlying themes to their campaigns and messaging. Humans connect with humans after all, and brands are using this as a point of connection to engage with their audience, especially charity-minded Generation Y."
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