"We don't know yet if it was the raw fish. We may never know the cause."
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"To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause."
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"I assume the closest members of my family don't actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them; they have to deal with the outrage that my public statements cause, and undoubtedly some members of my clan do want to kill me for that."
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"An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions"
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"Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect."
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"I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive."
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"Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story ... Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it.'' —Sherlock Holmes on John Watson's "pamphlet", "A Study in Scarlet"."
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"Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause."
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"By looking into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit, whether we take or whether we lose the game, the chase is certainly of service."
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"Working with people who cause your stomach to churn seems much like marrying for money - probably a bad idea under any circumstances, but absolute madness if you are already rich."
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"I would say the biggest single cause was we had an incredible residential real estate bubble."
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"When you live the virtues - when you live in that place of God-consciousness - all these rules we have about cause and effect, beginnings and ends, don't have any impact or relevance."
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"A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep."
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"The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed."
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"Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause."
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"Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give."
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"I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it."
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"The whole trip that happened in the late 60s and 70s was kind of a throwback to a lot of folk styles. I got into it as well 'cause I started with the folk styles."
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"For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts, it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cos I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls."
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"The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause."
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