"An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end."
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"Falling down ain't falling down, If you don't cry when you hit the floor, It's called the past cause I'm getting past, And I ain't nothing like I was before, You ought to see me now"
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"He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls."
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"Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being."
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"The more one forgives himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself."
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"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."
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"A small team, committed to a cause bigger than themselves, can achieve absolutely anything."
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"Where no bondage is, there is no cause and effect."
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"The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong"
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"Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom."
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"The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable."
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"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."
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"I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over."
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"For both the offender and the victim, the pain is there, often unacknowledged and that is when it can cause harm through festering. When I ignore a physical wound, it does not go away. No, it festers and goes bad."
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"When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result."
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"When we die, the money we can't keep, But we probably spend it all 'cause the pain ain't cheap..."
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"We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances."
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"Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being."
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"You is born lucky, and it's better to be born lucky than born rich, cause if you is lucky you can git rich, but if you is born rich and you ain't lucky you is liables to lose all you got."
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"How weak our mind is; how quickly it is terrified and unbalanced as soon as we are confronted with a small, incomprehensible fact. Instead of dismissing the problem with: "We do not understand because we cannot find the cause," we immediately imagine terrible mysteries and supernatural powers."
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