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• Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Experience, Stories

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

  Paul Gallico

  Baseball, Punishment, Games

  Paul Gallico (2015). “Farewell to Sport”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.

  Hermann Hesse

  Siddhartha, Together, Unbroken

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.28, Om Books International

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• Where no bondage is, there is no cause and effect.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Causes, Bondage, Effects

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Selections from Swami Vivekananda”

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• Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.

  Bernard Beckett

  Simple, Views, Needs

  "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2006.

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• The universe does not judge us; it only provides consequences and lessons and opportunities to balance and learn through the law of cause and effect. Compassion is the recognition that we are each doing the best we can within the limits of our current beliefs and capacities.

  Dan Millman

  Life Lesson, Learning, Opportunity

  Dan Millman (2001). “The Laws of Spirit: Simple, Powerful Truths for Making Life Work”, p.41, H J Kramer

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• Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Debt, Revolution, Causes

  Thomas Jefferson (1941). “The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Jefferson Bible, "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth,"”

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• You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Law, Choices, Disease

  "The Cure for the American Diet: Nutrient Density" by Joel Fuhrman, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2010.

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• Action can only be understood in relation to place; only by staying in place can the imagination conceive or understand action in terms of consequence, of cause and effect. The meaning of action in time is inseparable from its meaning in place.

  Wendell Berry

  Imagination, Causes, Action

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words: Essays”, p.88, Counterpoint Press

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• It is quite difficult to establish a clear-cut cause-and-effect relationship, as the causes are manifold and closely connected. It is simply not correct to link the level of democracy to prosperity. It is absolutely clear that the economic wealth of Saudi Arabia exceeds the performance of the Czech Republic. But apparently democracy is quite stable in the Czech Republic, which cannot be said about Saudi Arabia. As we delve into the past, we must not forget about the existing model of society.

  Garry Kasparov

  Cutting, Past, Czech Republic

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• When you know that something's going to happen, you'll start trying to see signs of its approach in just about everything. Always try to remember that most of the things that happen in this world aren't signs. They happen because they happen, and their only real significance lies in normal cause and effect. You'll drive yourself crazy if you start trying to pry the meaning out of every gust of wind or rain squall. I'm not denying that there might actually be a few signs that you won't want to miss. Knowing the difference is the tricky part.

  David Eddings

  Lying, Crazy, Real

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• There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just the inability to carry on clambering through the assault course of mundane cause and effect. If we ask Sheila then we can’t ask Ron. If I have the kippers now then it’s quiche for tea. Four score years is about all the ifs and thens you can take. Dementia’s the sane realisation you just can’t be doing with all that anymore.

  Glen Duncan

  Cancer, Years, Ifs And

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.16, Canongate Books

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• Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the most universally comprehensible way, and not as projections of our own emotions. Thunder is not a tantrum in the sky, disease is not a divine punishment, and not every death or accident results from witchcraft. What we call the Enlightenment and hold on to only tenuously, by our fingernails, is the slow-dawning understanding that the world is unfolding according to its own inner algorithms of cause and effect, probability and chance, without any regard for human feelings.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Struggle, Sky, Punishment

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). “Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”, p.149, Macmillan

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• The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect. We have to train ourselves to be thinking in terms of longer-term results.

  Jamais Cascio

  Strong, Thinking, Long

  "SXSW: Futurist Jamais Cascio Sees GOP Filters, Alt Energy". Interview with Lewis Wallace, www.wired.com. March 10, 2008.

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• Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.

  Rachel Carson

  Ocean, Fabric Of Life, Design

  Rachel Carson, Sue Hubbell (1998). “The Edge of the Sea”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.

  Arthur Miller

  Appreciation, Tragedy, Causes

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have alternative uses. It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.

  Thomas Sowell

  Philosophy, Causes, Alternatives

  Thomas Sowell (2000). “Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy”, Basic Civitas Books

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• Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which we call [physical] law. ... No one attributes freewill or motive to the material world. Is the conduct of man or the other animals any more subject to whim or choice than the action of the planets? ... We know that man's every act is induced by motives that led or urged him here or there; that the sequence of cause and effect runs through the whole universe, and is nowhere more compelling than with man.

  Clarence Darrow

  Running, Moving, Men

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• Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Sea, Land

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• Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the events come on us by surprise; and the effect is heightened when, at the same time, they follow as cause and effect. The tragic wonder will then be great than if they happened of themselves or by accident; for even coincidences are most striking when they have an air of design.

  Aristotle

  Air, Design, Tragedy

  Aristotle (0101). “The Poetics of Aristotle”, p.18, Prabhat Prakashan

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• If we stop for a moment, it is possible to perceive a pattern in our lives; the motivators that have influenced us become more obvious. We are able to see life unfolding from BOTH ENDS AT ONCE, coming into the present moment. But until we have got to a certain point of realization, this is not possible, because everything is still seen as a series of apparent causes and effects.

  Reshad Feild

  Able, Causes, Realization

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• Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

  Gregory Bateson

  Causes, Logic, Poor

  "Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity". Book by Gregory Bateson, 1979.

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• Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. A man does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he deals, so he is, and so he appears; he does not see that his son is the son of his thoughts and of his actions; that fortunes are not exceptions but fruits; that relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always; no miscellany, no exemption, no anomaly,--but method, and an even web; and what comes out, that was put in.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Son, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.294, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When you live the virtues - when you live in that place of God-consciousness - all these rules we have about cause and effect, beginnings and ends, don't have any impact or relevance.

  Wayne Dyer

  Impact, Causes, Beginnings And Ends

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• Your world is one of cause and effect.

  T. Harv Eker

  World, Causes, Effects

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