"There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause"
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"Cause if you’re happy in your head, then solitude is blessed, and alone is okay."
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"He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself."
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"On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die."
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"she thinks I'm psycho cause I like to rhyme her name with things."
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"I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here, 'Cause I remember it all, all, all... too well..."
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"When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property."
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"Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency."
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"But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes."
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"A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time."
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"We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause."
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"For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached."
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"The general remedy of those who are uneasy without knowing the cause is change of place."
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"Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in vain to conjecture; for what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain."
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"There comes a time, in the history of Nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you? Will you lovers of liberty, will you rise to the occasion?"
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"A push-and-go wooden duck on wheels can cause quite a lot of damage if wielded with enough force."
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"...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence."
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"The perfection of the effect demonstrates the perfection of the cause, for a greater power brings about a more perfect effect. But God is the most perfect agent. Therefore, things created by Him obtain perfection from Him. So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power."
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"It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God."
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"I'd like to cause a little riot in skating."
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