"Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance."
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"I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity."
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"Never let anything cause you to doubt your ability to demonstrate the Truth."
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"It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other."
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"With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened us, as were cause sufficient to have made us as miserable in our native country or any other place in the world"
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"The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects."
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"It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist."
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"Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties."
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"There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion; in the bloody religions of the heathen."
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"I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion."
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"Commitment to great causes makes great men."
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"Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other."
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"I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause."
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"It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom."
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"Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear."
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"It isn't the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it's what we say to ourselves about the things that are happening. The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new."
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"Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break."
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"American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them."
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"I know the police cause you trouble They cause trouble everywhere But when you die and go to Heaven You'll find no policemen there."
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"If you wanna be loved, baby, you've got to love me, too. Oh yeah, cause I an't for no one side love affair."
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