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• If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.

  Dalai Lama

  Peaceful, Mind, States

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.51, Penguin Books India

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• Anti-Semitism is nothing but the antagonistic attitude produced in the non-Jew by the Jewish group. This is a normal social reaction. The Jewish group has thrived on oppression and on the antagonism it has forever met in the world... the root cause is their use of enemies they create in order to keep solidarity.

  Albert Einstein

  Attitude, Order, Roots

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• Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Mind, Suffering, States

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.6, Tharpa Publications UK

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• When you wake up everyday
  Please don't throw your dreams away
  Hold them close to your heart
  'Cause we are all a part of
  the ordinary miracle

  Sarah McLachlan

  Dream, Heart, Miracle

  Song: Ordinary Miracle

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• Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?

  George Washington

  Country, Men, Brave

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “(v. 9) Containing correspondence from the time of resigning his commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, to that of his inauguration as president”, p.209

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• Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, it's fed. That is why beholding someone else's creative word, images, idea, fills us up, and inspires us to our own creative work. A single creative act has the potential to feed a continent. One creative act can cause a torrent to break through stone.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Creativity, Break Through, Ideas

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• Merely watching a romantic comedy causes relationship satisfaction to plummet. Apparently, the bitter realization that maybe it could happen to us, but it obviously hasn't and it probably never will, makes our lives seem unbearably grim in comparison.

  Jenna McCarthy

  Motivation, Inspiration, Realization

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• A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Real, Fighting, Years

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• As variable as flu is, HIV makes flu look like the Rock of Gibraltar. The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted.

  Seth Berkley

  Rocks, Viruses, Hiv

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• Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the gap between rich and poor. What do these issues have in common? Politicians, the media, and our so-called leaders lie to us about them. They lie about the cause. They lie about the effect. They lie about the solutions.

  Larry Elder

  Lying, School, Issues

  Larry Elder (2001). “The Ten Things You Can't Say In America”, p.7, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand about me 'cause it's important, and one day your life may depend on it: I am definitely a mad man with a box!

  Matt Smith

  Men, Mad, Important

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• The Word, then, the Christ, is the cause both of our ancient beginning, for lie was in God, and of our well-being. And now this same Word has appeared as man. He alone is both God and man, and the source of all our good things

  Tertullian

  Lying, Men, Ancient

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• My one and only piece of relevant evidence [for an Aristotelian God] is the apparent impossibility of providing a naturalistic theory of the origin from DNA of the first reproducing species ... [In fact] the only reason which I have for beginning to think of believing in a First Cause god is the impossibility of providing a naturalistic account of the origin of the first reproducing organisms.

  Antony Flew

  Believe, Thinking, Dna

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• I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you.

  Thia Megia

  Wall, Mean, Voice

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• But Jesus, our Advocate, presents an effectual plea in behalf of all who by repentance and faith have committed the keeping of their souls to Him.He pleads their cause, and by the mighty arguments of Calvary vanquishes their accuser.

  Ellen G. White

  Jesus, Soul, Argument

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book IV of IV”, p.711, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I'll never give up til I get want I want. Cause enchancers still supporting me

  Greyson Chance

  Giving Up, Want, Stills

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• I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas

  Hair, Age, Disability

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• You know there are two kinds of tears. Tears for those who leave you and tears for those who you never let go. And I won't say goodbye to you Xena, 'cause we'll be together again one day.

  Gabrielle

  Letting Go, Goodbye, Together Again

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• There are women who do not like to cause suffering to many men at a time, and who prefer to concentrate on one man: These are the faithful women.

  Alfred Capus

  Men, Faithful, Suffering

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• Persuade yourselves, that the faith of the gospel is beyond the power of nature; that there is a necessity of a power from on high to bring you to believe. This will raze the old foundation, and cause you to look up for it.

  Thomas Boston

  Believe, Foundation, Looks

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• It's just rock and roll. A lot of times we get criticized for it. A lot of music papers come out with: 'When are they going to stop playing these three chords?' If you believe you shouldn't play just three chords it's pretty silly on their part. To us, the simpler a song is, the better, 'cause it's more in line with what the person on the street is.

  Angus Young

  Song, Believe, Silly

  Atlanta Gazette Interview, May 1979.

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• In the future, Chiropractic will be valued for its preventative qualities as much as for relieving and adjusting the cause of ailments.

  B. J. Palmer

  Quality, Adjusting, Chiropractic

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• Medical men have searched the world for remedies, desiring an antidote. Chiropractors find the cause in the person ailing.

  B. J. Palmer

  Men, World, Medical

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• In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American people who make up the overwhelming majority of the world's population.

  Lin Biao

  Latin, Struggle, People

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• Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he loves to leave him and his once honourable principles would cease to be quite so important.

  Mike Gayle

  Fighting, Men, Giving

  Mike Gayle (2002). “My Legendary Girlfriend”, p.113, Broadway Books

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