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• This is our Lord’s will, that our prayer and our trust be both alike large. For if we trust not as much as we pray, we do not full worship to our Lord in our prayer, and also we tarry and pain our self. The cause is, as I believe, that we know not truly that our Lord is Ground on whom our prayer springeth; and also that we know not that it is given us by the grace of His love. For if we knew this, it would make us to trust to have, of our Lord’s gift, all that we desire. For I am sure that no man asketh mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace be first given to him.

  Julian of Norwich

  Prayer, Pain, Believe

  Julian of Norwich, Grace Warrack (2017). “Revelations of Divine Love”, p.95, Lulu.com

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• The only situation which might justify panic is one in which panic is likely to help. Such a situation never arises. Though pretended panic may sometimes cause a useful diversion, real panic can never be anything other than a waste of energy.

  Simon Brett

  Real, Energy, May

  Simon Brett (2011). “Mrs. Pargeter's Package”, p.136, Severn House Publishers Ltd

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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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• Sometimes I wish for falling
  Wish for the release
  Wish for falling through the air
  To give me some relief
  Because falling's not the problem
  When I'm falling I'm in peace
  It's only when I hit the ground
  It causes all the grief

  Florence Welch

  Grief, Fall, Air

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• I wish to remain nameless
  And live without shame
  'Cause what's in a name, Oh
  I still remain the same

  Florence Welch

  Names, Wish, Shame

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• The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history.

  Peter Breggin

  History, Miracle, Drug

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• What I question is the extent to which any of us truly knows what the facts really are. I mistrust every ideal cherished in western democratic civilization. The words that make others smile and nod in agreement cause me to recoil.

  Boyd Rice

  Agreement, Civilization, Facts

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• If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble.

  David O. Selznick

  Trouble, Accurate, Ifs

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• Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.

  Richard Lewontin

  Commitment, Acceptance, Science

  "Billions and Billions of Demons" by Richard Lewontin, www.nybooks.com. January 9, 1997.

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• The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, we’ll have more middle-class people. But homeownership and college aren’t causes of middle-class status, they’re markers for possessing the kinds of traits — self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc. — that let you enter, and stay, in the middle class. Subsidizing the markers doesn’t produce the traits; if anything, it undermines them.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Home, College, Class

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• A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

  Carlo M. Cipolla

  Stupid, Loss, Groups

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• Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in, external situations cause internal friction, you grow apart and then bounce back together.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Together, Patterns, Friction

  "Should I break up with my long-term friend?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2013.

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• The so-called scientific basis of the climate problem is within my professional competence as a meteorologist. It is my professional opinion that there is no evidence at all for catastrophic global warming. It is likely that global temperatures will rise a little, much as IPCC predicts, but there is a growing body of evidence that the errant behavior of the Sun may cause some cooling in the foreseeable future.

  Hendrik Tennekes

  Climate, Professional Competence, Growing

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• To use the image of Che Guevara to sell vodka is a slur on his name and memory. He never drank himself, he was not a drunk, and drink should not be associated with his immortal memory... As a supporter of the ideals for which Che Guevara died, I am not averse to its reproduction by those who wish to propagate his memory and the cause of social justice throughout the world.

  Alberto Korda

  Memories, Names, Drunk

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• Until such time as someone tells me different I will remain loyal to the cause.

  Nigel Worthington

  Different, Loyal

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• The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

  Chauncey Wright

  Science, Men, Accidents

  Chauncey Wright (2003). “Philosphical Discussions”, p.141, A&C Black

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• By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?

  Chauncey Wright

  Mean, May, Criteria

  Chauncey Wright (2003). “Philosphical Discussions”, p.36, A&C Black

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• The cause of Hawaii and independence is larger and dearer than the life of any man connected with it. Love of country is deep-seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station.

  Liliʻuokalani

  Country, Men, Independence

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• Whole libraries can be filled with the papers written about cancer and its causes, but the contents of these papers fit on one little library visiting card.

  August Bier

  Cancer, Library, Cards

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• Beloved, pursue Jesus and you will experience wisdom in every area of your life. You cannot try to earn, deserve or study to acquire God’s wisdom. It comes by His unmerited favor. His wisdom will give you good success in your career. It will cause you to succeed as a student, parent or spouse.

  Joseph Prince

  Jesus, Careers, Giving

  Joseph Prince (2011). “Unmerited Favor: Your Supernatural Advantage for a Successful Life”, p.308, Charisma Media

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• One of our troubles is we are not willing to humble ourselves. We are not willing to give up our opinions as to how things should be done. We want a revival to come just in our way. You never saw two revivals come just alike. We must let them come in God's way. People are ashamed to admit they need a revival. If you are not willing to take the shame on yourself, you then let it remain on Jesus Christ. You must bear the reproach of your sinful state of indifference, or the cause of our Master must bear it.

  Mordecai Ham

  Jesus, Giving Up, Humble

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• People will justify whatever for a good cause.

  Julie Taymor

  People, Justify, Good Causes

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• I don’t think television will ever be perfected until the viewer can press a button and cause whoever is on the screen’s head to explode.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Thinking, Buttons, Television

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• I'm a mess right now I can't eat can't sleep
  Bills are piling high ain't worked in three weeks
  Ain't bathed can't shave cause my heart is so tender like living in a blender
  I'm shaken and I'm stirred

  Anthony Hamilton

  Sleep, Heart, Bills

  Song: I'm A Mess, 2003

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• If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others.

  Arno Gruen

  People, Anxiety, Identity

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