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• I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not falter. I know how strongly American civilization now leans on the triumph of the government, and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and sufferings of the Revolution.

  Sullivan Ballou

  War, Government, Blood

  "'We Are All Exceptional.' Read Chuck Schumer's Inauguration Day Remarks" by Mahita Gajanan, time.com. January 20, 2017.

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• The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth - right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Determination, Powerful, War

  Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. "The Civil War: A Book of Quotations" by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.

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• I didn't go to college, but if I did, I would've taken all my tests at a restaurant, 'cause 'The customer is always right'.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Taken, Humor

  "Mitch All Together". Live Album by Mitch Hedberg, 2003.

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• One of the great exercises you can do is to stop and acknowledge the colors around you... If you're constantly distracting yourself, then you're never really experiencing anything fully. It can cause you to feel like you have no center, like nothing is grounding you.

  Sheryl Crow

  Exercise, Color, Rainbow

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• I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ’cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Feel Better, Blessing, Careers

  Interview with Erykah Badu, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2013.

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• Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

  Charles Lyell

  Change, Science, Curiosity

  Sir Charles Lyell (1837). “Principles of Geology: Being an Inquiry how Far the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface are Referable to Causes Now in Operation”, p.305

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• One of the most devastating enemies of the family is radical sex education in the public school. It is more explicit than necessary for the good of the child. Too much sex education too soon causes undue curiosity and obsession with sex.

  Beverly LaHaye

  Sex, Children, School

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• Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause I'm like that a lot. You think everything's ok, and it is . . . 'till it's not.

  Ani DiFranco

  Smile, Eye, Thinking

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• You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as I have many reasons for believing, although everyone who has so far written about it is of the contrary opinion), it follows that the weight of the air must be the sole cause of the phenomenon, and not that abhorrence of a vacuum, since it is obvious that at the foot of the mountain there is more air to have weight than at the summit, and we cannot possibly say that the air at the foot of the mountain has a greater aversion to empty space than at the top.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Air, Feet

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• The cause of anger lies in our thinking - in thoughts of blame and judgment.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Lying, Communication, Thinking

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• The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Suffering, Use

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• Faith is not the result of fuzy thinking. It is the cause of it.

  Dan Barker

  Faith, Thinking, Belief

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• If an event can be produced by a number n of different causes, the probabilities of the existence of these causes, given the event (prises de l'événement), are to each other as the probabilities of the event, given the causes: and the probability of each cause is equal to the probability of the event, given that cause, divided by the sum of all the probabilities of the event, given each of the causes.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Science, Numbers, Events

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• What we still designate as chance, merely depends on a concatenation of circumstances, the internal connection and final causes of which we have as yet been unable to unravel.

  Ludwig Buchner

  Science, Connections, Finals

  Ludwig Büchner (1891). “Force and Matter: Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon”

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• The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for anything else, no matter how noble the cause, it becomes perverted and justice is weakened. Thus, the law has become perverted by stupid greed and false philanthropy.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Stupid, Law, Organization

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• Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena.

  Leonhard Euler

  Science, May, Statistics

  Leonhard Euler (1955). “Commentationes mechanicae ad theoriam corporum fluidorum pertinentes 2nd part”, p.80, Springer Science & Business Media

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• The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Philosophy, Mistake

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.139, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt and prejudice people; some are also in the thick black clouds, which cause hail, lightning and thunder, and poison the air, the pastures and grounds.

  Martin Luther

  Hurt, Dark, Past

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• The true Christian hero will appear in the cause of Christ, not only when it is prevailing, but when it seems to be declining; (he) will be on the right side, though it be not the rising side.

  Matthew Henry

  Christian, Hero, Rising

  Matthew Henry, J.B Williams (1828). “Exposition of the Old and New Testament”, p.679

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• A man walks into a bar, and he said OUCH, cause it was an iron bar.

  Tommy Cooper

  Men, Iron, Bars

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• In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama in the United States of America. For me, I'm trying to fight the terrorism that's actually causing the other forms of terrorism. The root cause of the terrorism is the stuff that you as a government allow to happen and the foreign policies that we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists. And it's easy for us because it's really just some oil, which we can really get on our own.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Country, Fighting, Government

  "Lupe Fiasco calls President Obama 'Biggest Terrorist'" by Alvin Blanco, www.mtv.com. June 8, 2011.

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• They charge us with anti-Semitism…The truth is, those hurling these charges harbor a 'passionate attachment' to a nation not our own that causes them to subordinate the interests of their own country and to act on an assumption that, somehow, what's good for Israel is good for America.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Israel, Attachment

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• If we had to take a million immigrants in, say Zulus, next year, or Englishmen, and put them up in Virginia, what group would be easier to assimilate and would cause less problems for the people of Virginia?

  Pat Buchanan

  Virginia, Years, People

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• I think it could have real changing effects on the financial markets of our country, it could cause investors to think more about real rates of return and that in turn could spawn new kinds of products.

  Robert Rubin

  Country, Real, Thinking

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• I AM (your true self) is not interested in man’s opinion. All its interest lies in your conviction of yourself. What do you say of the I AM within you? Can you answer and say, “I AM Christ”? Your answer or degree of understanding will determine the place you will occupy in life. Do you say or believe yourself to be a man of a certain family, race, nation, etc.? Do you honestly believe this of yourself? Then life, your true self, will cause these conceptions to appear in your world and you will live with them as though they are real.

  Neville Goddard

  Real, Lying, Believe

  Neville Goddard (2013). “Your Faith is Your Fortune”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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