Quotes with --because

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  • Bob Riley God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
    Source: The Problem of Pain (1940)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • E. M. Cioran God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Brian De Palma Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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  • Caitlin Doughty Going around not fully believing that you're going to die is really problematic because it affects how you think about the future of the planet, about the future of your own life, about the decisions you're making.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Brooke Burke Going into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it's forever-changing, both mentally and physically.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • A. A. Milne Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Carl Hiaasen Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Martha Graham Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.
    Martha Graham
    American modern dancer and choreographer (1894 - 1991)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Bette Midler Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • Kingsley Amis Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Susan Sontag Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Anita Wise Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face.
    Anita Wise
     
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Barry Cornwall Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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