Quotes with causes

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  • William Shakespeare There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Avicenna Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.
    Avicenna
    Persian polymath (0 - 1037)
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  • Raymond Holliwell Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.
    Raymond Holliwell
    American author
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Jean Baudrillard We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Harry S. Truman We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Carrie P. Meek We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.
    Carrie P. Meek
    American politician (1926 - )
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Mkapa When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty-related preventable causes - equivalent to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day.
    At the United Nations 60th summit, 2005-09-16
    Benjamin Mkapa
    Tanzanian politician (1938 - 2020)
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  • George Bernard Shaw When men die of disease they are said to die from
    natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do)
    the doctor gets the credit of curing them.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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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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  • Susan Sontag With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease - because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Bennet Omalu Yes, the concept that blunt-force trauma of the head causes brain damage is a generally accepted principle of medicine. That is why I was so appalled by the NFL doctors who were denying my work.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Freya Stark Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
    Freya Stark
    British travel story writer (1893 - 1993)
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