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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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• We declare that love is the cause of the existence of all phenomena and that the absence of love is the cause of disintegration or non-existence.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Love, Absence, Existence

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• Pimpin' ain't dead 'cause I be the life line.

  Lil Wayne

  Pimp, Lines, Life Line

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• Helping others is not limited to providing food, shelter, and so forth, but includes relieving the basic causes of suffering and providing the basic causes of happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Helping Others, Suffering

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2006). “How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy have they ever with our race, that all Nature would be affected, and the sun's brightness fade, and the winds would sigh humanely, and the clouds rain tears, and the woods shed their leaves and put on mourning in midsummer, if any man should ever for a just cause grieve.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Nature, Cheer

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• I, uh...I have a television, so I'm going to spend some time here to tell you some things. [To orchestra conductor:] And, and...and sir, you're doing a great job, but you're so quick with that stick, so why don't you sit. 'Cause I may never be here again.'

  Julia Roberts

  Jobs, Orchestra, May

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• I wished that I...had no savvy at all. No savvy to cause me heartache. No savvy to make me hope, and then leave me useless.

  Ingrid Law

  Heartache, Useless, Leaving Me

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• Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Confusion, Anxiety, Feelings

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.58, Penguin

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• I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Long, Mind

  Acceptance Speech at Hyannis Armory, Hyannis, Massachusetts, www.jfklibrary.org. November 09, 1960.

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• The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

  Xunzi

  Broken, Promise, Bounds

  Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.137, Stanford University Press

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• O Nanak, the worldly achievements and glory is worthy of being burnt in the fire if it causes one to forget God. Usually these worldly things has caused mortals to forget the the Name of the Lord. Not even one of them will go along with you in the end.

  Guru Angad

  Fire, Names, Achievement

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• There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.

  Kate Mosse

  Wish, Desire, Stronger

  Kate Mosse (2008). “Sepulchre”, p.382, Hachette UK

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• I don’t show my body for a good cause... if one day in a concert I pull down my pants, I would leave without job to those reporters who say I’m a woman

  Bill Kaulitz

  Jobs, One Day, Body

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• There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion, give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves; it will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint, and it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so; for they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Mean, Men, Knowing

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• Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.

  Silas Weir Mitchell

  Lying, Healing, Health

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• One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

  Carly Simon

  Stay Strong, Pain, Writing

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• We are slaves of what we don't know;of what we know we are masters.Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discoverand understand its cause and workings,we overcome it by the very knowing.The primary purpose of meditation is to become more consciousand familiar with our inner life.The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Knowing, Meditation, Growth

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• On the justice of the cause of Prince Edouard, adding insurances of greatest sincerity to help it and support it and give him on all occasions of the marks of the same feelings as I have for the King his father.

  Henry Benedict Stuart

  Kings, Father, Giving

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• That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.

  Henry Knox

  Light, Darkness, May

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• For me it's more important to look at each constituency individually and find a community I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause.

  Adam Rickitt

  Teamwork, Real, Differences

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• Hopelessness may be the saddest word in our language. Despair is the enemy of our souls. It can paralyze us, halt our progress, and cause us to lose our way. But hope awakens us like a light shining in the darkness. We can endure all things when our hope is centered in one who will never fail us-our Savior, Jesus Christ, who is the light of the world.

  Dwan J. Young

  Jesus, Light, Shining

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• All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

  Seneca the Younger

  Laughter, Weeping, All Things

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• It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

  Gerrit Smith

  Success, Slavery, Influence

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• American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Balance, Stability, Regions

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• Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.

  Austin Peck

  Honesty, People, Comedy

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