Causes Quotes - Page 10

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• People will justify whatever for a good cause.

  Julie Taymor

  People, Justify, Good Causes

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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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• Genuine sincerity opens people's hearts, while manipulation causes them to close.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Heart, People, Manipulation

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• For there is nothing quite so terror-inducing as the loss of sleep. It creates phantoms and doubts, causes one to questions one's own abilities and judgement, and, over time, dismantles, from within, the body.

  Charlie Huston

  Sleep, Loss, Judgement

  Charlie Huston (2010). “Sleepless”, p.155, Hachette UK

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• While spay neuter is important, our goal has never been no more births, even though reducing birth rates might help. Our goal has been and is, and has always been no more killing. And when you focus on the no more killing part, spay neuter actually takes a backseat to all those other programs like foster care, and adoptions, and helping people overcome the challenges they face that cause them to surrender their animals.

  Nathan Winograd

  Animal, Birth Rate, People

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• The greatest cause of ulcers is mountain-climbing over molehills.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Climbing, Mountain, Ulcers

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Peace, Thinking

  "Written in London. September, 1802" l. 11 (1807)

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• As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion, which literally means to 'suffer with' ... How does [the] self cause the desire which causes suffering?...by the illusion of separateness, the unawareness of One.

  Christmas Humphreys

  Life, Brother, Learning

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• Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it takes no more than a few sentences, followed by an embarrassed "Never mind, I see what's wrong. Sorry to bother you." This works remarkably well; you can even use non-programmers as listeners. One university computer center kept a teddy bear near the help desk. Students with mysterious bugs were required to explain them to the bear before they could speak to a human counselor.

  Brian Kernighan

  Sorry, Learning, Mind

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• It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

  Aristotle

  Words Of Wisdom, Principles, Kind

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• I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Ideas, Words Of Wisdom, Facts

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• Our imagination is larger than the world around us; we go beyond our limits. This used to be called 'witchcraft,' but fortunately things have changed, otherwise we would both already have been burned at the stake. When they stopped burning women, science found an explanation for our behavior, normally referred to as 'female hysteria.' We don't get burned anymore, but it does cause problems, especially in the workplace. But don't worry, eventually they'll call it 'wisdom.'

  Paulo Coelho

  Hysteria, Imagination, Worry

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• This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the body. It covers the whole ground, sub-consciousness, consciousness, and super-consciousness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ego, Body, Consciousness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.864, Manonmani Publishers

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• In the course of normal speaking the inhibitory function of the will is continuously directed to bringing the course of ideas and the articulatory movements into harmony with each other. If the expressive movement which which follows the idea is retarded through mechanical causes, as is the case in writing ... such anticipations make their appearance with particular ease.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Writing, Ideas, Psychology

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• Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in software than almost anything else.

  John Robbins

  Pet, Requirements, Lasts

  John Robbins (2000). “Debugging Applications: Microsoft”

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• Cause there's a light in me that shines brightly. They can try, but they can't take that away from me.

  Mariah Carey

  Confidence, Light, Shining

  Song: Can't Take That Away, Album: Rainbow, 1999

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• I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.

  Ornette Coleman

  New Orleans, Hair, Long

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• The desire to force love to live only in its most positive form is what causes love ultimately to fall over dead.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Love, Fall, Desire

  "Women Who Run With the Wolves". Book by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, September 17, 1992.

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