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• You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Good War, Good Causes

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.103, Penguin

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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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• As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Past, Order, May

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.90, Xist Publishing

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• You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

  Morris West

  Wisdom, Art, Perfection

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• It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.

  Robin Morgan

  Struggle, Fighting, Winning

  Robin Morgan (1970). “Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement”, Vintage

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

  Richard Armour

  Corny, Trouble, Armour

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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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• 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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• I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Thinking, Confusion

  "Carter: Iraq War is 'Unjust'". www.foxnews.com. July 30, 2005.

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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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• I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Preparation, Imperfect, Conviction

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

  Muddy Waters

  Memories, Long, Blues Music

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

  Ben Sherwood

  Lost, Lost Cause

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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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• 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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