Quotes with cause

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  • Raymond Holliwell The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.
    Raymond Holliwell
    American author
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  • Seneca The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Napoleon Hill The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Nathaniel Borenstein The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
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  • Bill Clinton The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • L. Ron Hubbard The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.
    L. Ron Hubbard
    American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology (1911 - 1986)
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  • Henri-Louis Bergson The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
    Henri-Louis Bergson
    French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature (1927) (1859 - 1941)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Robert Lynd The shy man usually finds that he has been shy without a cause, and that, in practice, no one takes the slightest notice of him.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • William Hazlitt The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • E. M. Cioran The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Bernard Ebbers The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.
    Bernard Ebbers
    Canadian businessman (1941 - 2020)
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  • Elizabeth Drew The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ''mangled mind'' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
    Elizabeth Drew
    American political journalist and author (1935 - )
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  • Richard Rorty The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
    Richard Rorty
    American philosopher (1931 - 2007)
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  • William James There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Ben Carson There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Vince Lombardi There is only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give everything. I do and I demand that my players do. Any man's finest hour is when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle... victorious.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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