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"We should be wondering tonight, "Is there a world?" But I could go and talk on 5, 10, 20 minutes about is there a world, because there is really no world, cause sometimes I'm walkin' on the ground and I see right through the ground. And there is no world. And you'll find out."
"The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick."
"What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire."
"In an easy cause anyone can be eloquent; the slightest strength is enough to break what is already shattered."
"Tis base to plead the unhappy prisoner's cause, With eloquence that's bought."
"It has occasionally been remarked upon that it is as easy to overlook something large and obvious as it is to overlook something small and niggling, and that the large things one overlooks often cause problems."
"When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf - 'cause I'd alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf."
"There is no doubt that a person's charms are less frequently a cause of love than a remark such as: 'No, this evening I shan't be free'."
"Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors."
"willing me to understand: that people should be sacrificed to causes, that beauty can be built on the backs of the dead."
"To know truly is to know by causes."
"Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest."
"The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of the universe has this principle besides, that it cannot be compelled even by any external cause to generate anything harmful to itself."
"The substance of the universe is obedient and compliant; and the reason which governs it has in itself no cause for doing evil, for it has no malice, nor does it do evil to anything, nor is anything harmed by it. But all things are made and perfected according to this reason."
"The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true."
"There are three relations [between thee and other things]: the one to the body which surrounds thee; the second to the divine cause from which all things come to all; and the third to those who live with thee."
"Women are such contrary creatures when it comes to sex. You parade around like scantily clad vixens but blush when you're caught staring at the erections you cause."
"A devotion to humanity is... too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty."
"You show me something that doesn't cause cancer, and I'll show you something that isn't on the market yet."
"To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful."
