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Causes Quotes by Laurence Sterne
- 'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.
- First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of…
- What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial. — Richard Armour
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate. — Rowan Atkinson
- It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. — Saint Augustine
- How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. — Marcus Aurelius
- We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of… — Marcus Aurelius
- A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we… — Michelle Bachelet