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The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of the universe has… — Marcus Aurelius
The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning.… — Marcus Aurelius
There are three relations [between thee and other things]: the one to the body which surrounds thee; the second to the divine cause from which… — Marcus Aurelius
Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice in the things… — Marcus Aurelius
A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed. — Jean de la Bruyere
Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences… — E. M. Forster
The Bible is a warm letter of affection from a parent to a child; and yet there are many who see chiefly the severer passages.… — Thomas De Witt Talmage
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an… — William Ralph Inge
Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse.… — Paul Valery
Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts,… — Charles Caleb Colton
Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to… — Charles Caleb Colton
Think about this some of us actively fighting to remove Saddam Hussein don't agree with the cause themselves, but they're doing their duty. And it… — Bill O'Reilly
Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause. — Paul Robeson
Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing. — Unknown Author
At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he… — Gore Vidal
Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of crime.… — Clarence Darrow
For liberals, the observation that 'the peasants are revolting' is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter how far the… — Charles Krauthammer
The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population upon its territory;… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in… — Emma Goldman
I feel sure that the police are helping us more than I could do in ten years. They are making more anarchists than the most… — Emma Goldman
I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration and minute scrutiny… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational and manly than… — James Madison

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