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Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy,… — Bergen Evans
In all education the main cause of failure is staleness. — Alfred North Whitehead
...We should try to link our personal lives with the cause for which we struggle, with the cause of building communism. — Nadezhda Krupskaya
I guess my mom raised me right. She was very celebratory of her body. I never heard her once say, 'I feel fat.' Back when… — Christina Hendricks
The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment, feeling the cause,… — Edward Weston
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than… — James Madison
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a… — Viktor E. Frankl
To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our… — Eric Hoffer
Photography was the first available demonstration that light could indeed exert an action sufficient to cause changes in material bodies. — Henry Fox Talbot
Whatever the reason, for most of the present century, the literature and publicity of the old established [animal welfare] groups made a significant contribution to… — Peter Singer
I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell, to sacrifice my… — Mahatma Gandhi
French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good… — James Howell
The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their… — Adam Smith
If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. — Mahatma Gandhi
The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing.… — Mahatma Gandhi
Dedication is loyalty to a cause, even when hope has long expired for a successful outcome. It is an unstoppable determination to win regardless of… — Wes Fesler
I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A little reminder to those who don't back Obama and gay marriage. It's probably cause you're gay. — Barack Obama
Inasmuch as it is manifest from experience that if the Holy Bible, translated into the vulgar tongue, be indiscriminately allowed to every one, the rashness… — Pope Pius IV
I really had to act; 'cause I didn't have any lines. — Marilyn Chambers

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