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To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
We [The United States] believe the Iranian people want a future of freedom and human rights: the right to vote, to run… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Just as the Huns under their king Attila created for themselves a thousand years ago a name which men still respect, you… — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
...the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines,… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
One Dilbert Blog reader noted that current research shows that happiness causes success more than success causes happiness. That makes sense to… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Advertising doesn't cause addictions. But it does create a climate of denial and it contributes mightily to a belief in the quick… — Jean Kilbourne Copy Share Image
If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Adding more people causes problems. But people are also the means to solve these problems. The main fuel to speed the world’s… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
The so-called scientific basis of the climate problem is within my professional competence as a meteorologist. It is my professional opinion that… — Hendrik Tennekes Copy Share Image
There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I know that the fact that I am candidate to my own succession in 2017 can be perceived to be a bad… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
We may well ask, What causes induce us to believe in the existence of body? but 'tis vain to ask. Whether there… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It was a woman who drove me to drink. Come to think of it, I never did hang around to thank her… — Dean Martin Copy Share Image
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Most people simply go through life. They feel that they're making choices in their lives that cause destiny to move in certain… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I feel the audience has a right to know if some of the money they're spending is going to a certain cause,… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
To bring the worst of the worst terrorists inside the United States would be cause for great danger and regret in the… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Ignorance of God and of ourselves is the great principle and cause of all our disquietments; and, this ariseth mostly not from… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
If we had intellectual vigour enough to ascend from effects to causes, we would explain political, economical and social phenomena less by… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The doctrines contained in the Bible will lift to a superior condition all who observe them; they will impart to them knowledge,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
But there is a more virulent strain at the root of Western Lysenkoism today. Scientists, like Holdren and Michael Mann, can be… — Peter Ferrara Copy Share Image
I just always loved comedy and I really wanted to be good at it. And it was heartbreaking, 'cause I started and… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the… — M. R. DeHaan Copy Share Image
You say you're a Christian, Cause God made you, You say you're a Muslim, Cause God made you, You say you're a… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
Assuredly whatsoever things are fabled to exist in deep Acheron, these all exist in this life. There is no wretched Tantalus, fearing… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The golden age of equal rights in Spain was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause,… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Prayer is not one of the many things the community does. Rather, it is its very beingBut when prayer is no longer… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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