Causes Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• 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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• 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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• So the question is not: Why start off on such a path? You have already started off. You did so with the first beat of your heart. The question is: Do I wish to walk this path consciously, or unconsciously? With awareness or lack of awareness? As the cause of my experience, or at the effect of it?

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Life, Religious

  "Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, 1996.

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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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• I have come to know that adversity really means the things in life that challenge us and cause us to work with devotion and courage to overcome. I once stood on a street in Trondheim, Norway, looking up at a statue of a Viking. There came to my mind at that time a fable of the Norsemen that when a man won a victory over another, the strength of the conquered went over into his veins. Therefore, in this sense adversity is good, for it produces in us a source of strength as we learn to conquer our weaknesses.

  Alvin R. Dyer

  Life, Mean, Adversity

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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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• Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

  Aristotle

  Lying, Words Of Wisdom, Principles

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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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• But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did
  they render unsound the negotiated purchases of fine businesses at sensible prices. Imagine the cost to us, then, if we had let a fear of unknowns cause us to defer or alter the deployment of capital. Indeed, we have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

  Warren Buffett

  Deployment, Principles, Events

  Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. March 7, 1995.

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• And now I send these pages forth, not knowing what shall befall them, but with the earnest prayer that they may be blessed to aid the cause of truth and righteousness, and that He in whose name they are written may, of His mercy, "Forgive them where they fail in truth, And in His wisdom make me wise."

  Frederic Farrar

  Wise, Wisdom, Prayer

  Frederic William Farrar (1891). “The Sweet Story of Jesus: The Life of Christ”

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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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• The similarities between street drug abuse and psychotropic prescription drug use are disturbing. Both types are toxic. Both can cause psychosis, damage the brain and other organs, and even cause death. And neither type of mind-altering drugs, legal or illegal, treats disease. It's important to recognize that the only significant difference between many prescription psychotropic drugs and street drugs such as "speed" and "downers" is that prescription drugs are legal.

  Sydney Walker

  Psychosis, Drug Use, Differences

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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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• Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. . . . The music causes me to dream of fabulous empires, filled with fabulous sins.

  Hector Berlioz

  Music, Dream, Eagles

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• But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a time; start hating, or fall in love, only so as not to sit with folded arms.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Falling In Love, Hate, Feelings

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