Causes Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.

  Graham Chapman

  Attitude, Ideas, Sparks

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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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• My friend Ronald Gottesman says...that the cause of all our trouble is the belief in an essential, pure identity: religious, ethnic, historical, ideological.

  Chris Abani

  Religious, Historical, Identity

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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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• It must be therefore, since the enemies of the Jews belonged to the most diverse races, since they lived in countries very distant from each other, since they were ruled by very different laws, governed by opposite principles, since they had neither the same morals, nor the same customs, since they were animated by unlike dispositions which did not permit them to judge of anything in the same way, it must be therefore that the general cause of anti-Semitism has always resided in Israel itself and not in those who have fought against Israel.

  Bernard Lazare

  Country, Race, Israel

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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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• THE POWER OF THE GROUP We all want to feel a sense of belonging. This isn’t a character flaw. It’s fundamental to the human experience. Our finest achievements are possible when people come together to work for a common cause. School spirit, the rightful pride we feel in our community, our heritage, our religion, and our families, all come from the value we place on belonging to a group.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  School, Character, Pride

  Rosalind Wiseman (2013). “Masterminds and Wingmen: Helping Our Boys Cope with Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends, and the New Rules of Boy World”, p.37, Harmony

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• A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean that both sides are equally wrong; it means that since we all fall short of moral perfection, even the side whose cause is truly righteous may commit terrible acts of violence in defense of that cause -- and, worse, may feel quite justified in committing them. That is the difference between being righteous and being self-righteous. Moral standards are absolute; but human fidelity to them is always relative.

  Joseph Sobran

  Fall, Mean, Self

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• Keep on dreaming boy cause when you stop dreaming it's time to die.

  Shannon Hoon

  Dream, Boys, Dies

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• Bright points in the sky or a blow on the head will equally cause one to see stars.

  Percival Lowell

  Stars, Blow, Sky

  Lowell Observatory, Percival Lowell (1898). “Annals of the Lowell Observatory”

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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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• He answered, "The woman whom You gave to be with me" (Gen 3:9-12), he did not say, "the woman deceived me," but "The woman whom You gave to me," as if he wanted to say: "This catastrophe has come upon me because of You." So it is, brethren, since Man is not accustomed to blame himself. He does not hesitate to consider even God as the cause of evil.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Humility, Men, Evil

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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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• For me being the youngest, there was never ever anything that was an issue to cause rivalry between me and my sisters.

  Nicole Appleton

  Sister, Issues, Rivalry

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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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• The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.

  Robert Barany

  Mind, Progress, Weakness

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• Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

  Elihu Root

  Believe, People, Justice

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• If you've got a question just get in line
  'Cause my intentions are to make you mine
  I'll take care of everything
  All you need, friend, is right here
  ..... And if you're lost I will find your way
  Give me your soul, friend, it's okay

  Dave Matthews

  Giving, Soul, Needs

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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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• Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you. Oh how harshly was I flung back by the doubly sad experience of my bad hearing.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Loss, Men, Thinking

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