Quotes with causes

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  • Antonin Artaud So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Bill Bennett The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.
    Bill Bennett
    Canadian politician (1932 - 2015)
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  • Woody Allen The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
    The New York Times , 1 December 1975
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Plato The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Ronald Segal The far right seeks to retain the material progress of American capitalism while removing some of its crucial causes and consequences - as though a bridge could be made to change part of its function by blowing up part of its supports and part of its exit.
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  • Ben Bernanke The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 was an extraordinarily complex event with multiple causes.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bob Dylan The geometry of innocence flesh on the bone
    Causes Galileo's math book to get thrown
    At Delilah who sits worthlessly alone
    But the tears on her cheeks are from laughter
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Doris Lessing The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Avicenna The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
    Avicenna
    Persian polymath (0 - 1037)
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  • Henry Miller The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Samuel Johnson The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Anthony Minghella The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.
    Anthony Minghella
    British film director, playwright and screenwriter (1954 - 2008)
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  • William Hazlitt The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science and imposture is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Aldous Huxley The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Brian Moore The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.
    Brian Moore
    British writer and screenwiter (1921 - 1999)
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  • Michel Foucault The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Benazir Bhutto The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Ali Hosseini-Khamenei The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes.
    Ali Hosseini-Khamenei
    Iranian ayatollah
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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