Causes Quotes
5764 quotes by 3247 authors
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
— Hippocrates
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Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual…
— Charles Darwin
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While waiting for promised blessings, one should not mark time, for to fail to move forward is to some degree a retrogression. Be anxiously engaged…
— Howard W. Hunter
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A basic cause of murmuring is that too many of us seem to expect that life will flow ever smoothly, featuring an unbroken chain of…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development.…
— Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Snowden has enough [sic] information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had. The U.S.…
— Glenn Greenwald
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A: Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to the US government in a minute alone than anyone else has ever had in the…
— Glenn Greenwald
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As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking…
— Pope Francis
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Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite…
— Christine de Pizan
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The laboratory evidence that carbohydrate-rich diets can cause the body to reain water and so raise blood pressure, just as salt consumption is supposed to…
— Gary Taubes
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And yet as a coach, I know that being fixated on winning (or more likely, not losing) is counterproductive, especially when it causes you to…
— Phil Jackson
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As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and…
— Al Gore
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Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is,…
— Assata Shakur
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Those in the community who defy authority and 'break the law' seem to enjoy the good life and have everything in the way of material…
— Huey Newton
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The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So I’d rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless.
— Immortal Technique
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The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely, liberals, conservatives, radicals,…
— Russell Kirk
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The disappearance of the heroic ideal is always accompanied by the growth of commercialism. There is a cause-and-effect relationship here, for the man of commerce…
— Richard M. Weaver
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The real scientific study of the distribution of wealth has, we must confess, scarcely begun. The conventional academic study of the so-called theory of distribution…
— Irving Fisher
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If sequestration takes place, that’s going to be a great setback. We don’t need to be having something like sequestration that’s going to cause these…
— Maxine Waters
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