"Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless."
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"Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated."
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"... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out."
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"Alcohol is the cause of all my problems."
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"Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection."
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"I entered the Communist Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just."
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"When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it."
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"It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation."
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"These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation."
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"The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality."
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"It depends who they are. If it's Mick (Jagger) or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Old Guard. Elton (John), David (Bowie) are the newies. I don't feel like an old uncle, dear, 'cause I'm not that much older than half of 'em, hehe."
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"I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy."
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"You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians."
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"When we make a true commitment to walk in love, it usually causes a huge shift in our lifestyle. Many of our ways - our thoughts, our conversation, our habits - have to change."
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"Paul Gleason played the teacher. I just tortured him as best I could. 'Cause he wasn't one of the kids, you know, so it was okay. He was great."
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"I must start at the beginning, if I can find it. Beginnings are elusive things. Just when you think you have hold of one, you look back and see another, earlier beginning, and an earlier one before that. Even if you start with "Chapter One: I Am Born, " you still have the problem of antecedents, of cause and effect."
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"I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it. If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched."
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"After days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life. Nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter."
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"It takes more than clicking like for a good cause to change the world."
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"Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery."
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