Quotes with cause

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  • William C. Bryant Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
    William C. Bryant
    American poet, editor (1794 - 1878)
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  • Ben Stein Well, the first cause is not...it's lightning striking a mud puddle. See, and this is what the evolutionists say. And by the way, they may be right -- you know, I'm not a scientist, they could be right.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Salvador Dali What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdad's of his dreams to rise from the dust.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Robert Stone What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.
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  • Bill Moyers What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Bebe Neuwirth When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
    Bebe Neuwirth
    American actress, singer and dancer (1958 - )
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  • Bobby Flay When I'm on television, I think that I appeal to the everyday guy, 'cause that's who I am. The guys who go to the football games on the weekends are my viewers, for sure.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem When unique voices are united in a common cause, they make history.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Arthur Hugh Clough Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?
    Arthur Hugh Clough
    English poet (1819 - 1861)
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  • Billy Joel Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Homer Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Plato Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
    Phaedrus
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • William Cobbett Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I tell you: it is the good war that hallows every cause.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Asa Gray Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • M. R. Dehaan Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of error and misunderstanding of the events of the future.
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