Causes Quotes
5764 quotes by 3247 authors
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.
— Honore de Balzac
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Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the…
— H.G. Wells
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Government has coddled, accepted, and ignored white collar crime for too long. It is time the nation woke up and realized that it's not the…
— Harry Markopolos
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Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you gotta do is call, and I'll be there, 'cause you've got a friend.
— James Taylor
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Oxytocin connects us to other people; oxytocin makes us feel what other people feel. And it's easy to cause people's brains to release oxytocin. Let…
— Paul J. Zak
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For my part, I rather distrust men or concerns that rise up with the speed of rockets. Sudden rises are sometimes followed by equally sudden…
— B. C. Forbes
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Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly.
— Billy Gibbons
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Why does one want to walk wings? Why force one's body from a plane to make a parachute jump? Why should man want to fly…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Presidents, leaders, to be effective have to represent the whole to the parts and to the world outside. They may live in the centre but…
— Charles Handy
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
— Marat Safin
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Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a loser in life.
— Fran Tarkenton
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From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future.…
— Alfred Hitchcock
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My idea is, that if capital and labor are left alone they will mutually regulate each other. People who think they can regulate all mankind…
— Jay Gould
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Seen from the United States or Europe, Irans nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the…
— Yukiya Amano
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Cause the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked. Hmmmm.
— Utah Phillips
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Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights
— Maria Weston Chapman
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The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents…
— Hideki Tojo
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To secede from the Union and set up another government would cause war. If you go to war with the United States, you will never…
— Sam Houston
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If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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