Causes Quotes
5764 quotes by 3336 authors
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Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive…
— Jane Jacobs
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Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not…
— Petrarch
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The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.
— Edward Bellamy
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Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were giving him or…
— John D. Rockefeller
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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Peace comes from the absence of fear, from a consciousness of trust, from a deep, underlying faith in the absolute goodness and mercy, the final…
— Ernest Holmes
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Confusion is the main cause of worry
— Dale Carnegie
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I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it…
— Ingmar Bergman
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Nationalism and patriotism are the two most evil forces that I know of in this century or in any century and cause more wars and…
— Oliver Stone
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I hope everyone will feel good about supporting a worthy cause that helps educate people and saves lives while wearing a cool looking shirt that…
— Dean Haspiel
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Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.
— Larry Niven
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What is the cause of all God's purposes towards us? Himself. There is no other cause.
— Thomas Goodwin
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And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause [of lust], it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasion…You must…
— Richard Baxter
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I don't kiss losers and I don't kiss winners, and I don't fight for honor 'cause we all are born sinners
— Regina Spektor
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I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat
— Regina Spektor
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And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward.…
— David Levithan
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You might say that I was the first and caused others to awaken to the sense of their duty in helping deserving causes for the…
— Madam C. J. Walker
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All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is…
— Osama bin Laden
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And so today, the undermining of the home and family is on the increase, with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so…
— Jefferson Davis
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