"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."
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"American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region."
"For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition."
"Youre still beautiful to me, cause youre my mom."
"If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought."
"I don't really frick with Africa cause people are starving to death and that's not ballin' to me."
"And me, I know that there is a god. Cause I know who god is."
"The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces."
"Happy is he who causes a scandal"
"Things are not as bad as it seems. The situations that cause us sorrow are the same ones that introduce us to the strength, power and wisdom that we truly are."
"Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself."
"The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past."
"In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad."
"So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun, An' gittin' Natur' for an ally."
"A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all"
"Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively."
"It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us."
"I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance."
"History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in."
"The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide."