"Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity."
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"Krishna is God, the source of all that exists, the cause of all that is, was, or ever will be."
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"And the cause of everything is that which we call God."
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"Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this."
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"It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause."
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"Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things."
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"When mental sickness increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects."
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"Cause I'm a redneck woman."
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"When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him gazing, not lost in thought and so oblivious of everything, but free and untroubled, as if he were alone with nobody to observe him, and yet must notice that he was observed, and all the same remained with his calm not even slightly disturbed; and really - one did not know whether it was cause or effect - the gaze of the observer could not remain concentrated there, but slid away."
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"Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions."
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"In fact, anyone who merits attention and who promotes any cause at all is doing so on the basis of a belief that it is somehow good for humans, because of their inherent nature."
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"Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition."
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"Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly."
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"Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery."
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"What I loved about [The Other Woman] movie was the same thing. It was three women who would never have come together for any other reason except that they had something in common which was this common cause, and that's really the feeling that I wanted this movie to have. It was a huge influence for it."
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"You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause."
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"The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion."
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"All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings."
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"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."
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"There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause."
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