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• The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

  Doris Lessing

  Birthday, Time, Years

  The Sunday Times (London), May 10, 1992.

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• Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Confusion, Age, Body

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• I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

  Fidel Castro

  Fake People, War, Hypocrisy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

  Chanakya

  Family, Son, Tree

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• At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Friendship, Basketball, Thank You

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• We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice, forever whispering within our ear, that thing which causes the eternal quest, that thing which forever sings and sings.

  Ernest Holmes

  Voice, Forever, Eternal Love

  Ernest Holmes (1998). “The Science of Mind: The Definitive Edition”, p.11, Penguin

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• Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Betrayal, Tolerance, Betrayed

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

  Hesiod

  Marriage, Wedding, Sisterhood

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• Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Change, Christian, Imperfect

  "He Came from Galilee". Book by Parker B. Brown, 1974.

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• The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

  William Ralph Inge

  Happiness, Success, Happy

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• If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Life, Positive Attitude, Diversity

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.

  Pema Chodron

  Ignorance, Roots, Imperfect

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.48, Shambhala Publications

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• The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.

  Jean Piaget

  Self, Law, Action

  Jean Piaget (2013). “The Construction Of Reality In The Child”, p.352, Routledge

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• Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Two Extremes, Imbalance, Helping

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• The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

  Ovid

  Effects, Visible

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• One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Respect, Communication, Caring

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• To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

  Ernest Holmes

  Believe, Law, Punishment

  Ernest Holmes (2010). “Living Without Fear”, p.21, Penguin

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• Never do anything that taints your mind. Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality. Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture the good qualities you want to have.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Yoga, Evil, Personality

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• In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.

  Richard Armour

  Corny, Trouble, Armour

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• Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

  Keith Henson

  Brain, Attention, Way

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• What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

  Benjamin Spock

  Peace, Children, War

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• Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

  Toni Morrison

  Equality, Sisterhood, Rights

  Barnard College Commencement Address, May 1979.

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• Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Faith, History, Literature

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

  Harry S. Truman

  Peace, War, Communication

  "Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations)" by M.P. Singh, p. 101, January 1, 2005.

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• There's no such thing as a lost cause.

  Ben Sherwood

  Lost, Lost Cause

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