Causes Quotes - Page 32

• It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.

  Bram Stoker

  Roots, Evil, Selfishness

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.125, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is not enough to explain. The images that are in the mind of the writer must be made to reappear in the mind of the reader, and it is the absence of this ability that causes much economic writing to be condemned, quite properly, as abstract.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, Hands, Mind

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• Fury said to a mousethat he met in the houselet us both go to law; I will prosecute youlet there be no denial; come, we must have a trialfor really, this morning, I've nothing to dosuch a trial, dear sir, said the mouse to the curwithout jury or judge would be wasting our breathI'll be judge, I'll be jurysaid cunning old furyI'll try the whole cause and condemn youto death

  Lewis Carroll

  Morning, Law, Judging

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• Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause for quarreling?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Long, Goal, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.104, Vintage

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• The purposes of our God are great, His love unfathomable, His wisdom infinite, and His power unlimited; therefore, the Saints have cause to rejoice and be glad.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Saint, Purpose, His Love

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• In a 91-part series of sob stories from the laid off and the disgruntled, The NY Times is in the midst of bemoaning 'the downsizing of America' - better known as 'the whining of America.' The cause of all the heartache, in the esteemed newspaper of record's view, appears to be heartless corporate chieftains - as well as capitalism itself. Americans are moving forward, despite shackles. The shackles I am referring to are not NAFTA, not corporations. They are, instead, the barriers imposed by our own government.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Moving, Heart, Government

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• However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.

  Eric Hoffer

  People, Different, Holiness

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• We are not saints. We know we make mistakes, but at least our heart is with the right cause.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Mistake, Heart, Saint

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• Once over there [Balkans], I felt extremely patriotic. Here are these people, from 18-year-olds to military veterans, enduring real duress for the cause of peace. I don't ever want to play for a regular audience again, only military folks who are starving for music.

  Sheryl Crow

  Military, Real, Patriotic

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• Words mean nothing to liberals. They say whatever will help advance their cause at the moment, switch talking points in a heartbeat, and then act indignant if anyone uses the exact same argument they were using five minutes ago.

  Ann Coulter

  Mean, Talking, Use

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• I love Nicki Minaj, I told her I’d admit it, I hope one day we get married just to say we f-cking did it and girl I’m f-cking serious, I’m with it if you with it, cause your verses turn me on and your pants are mighty fitted.

  Drake

  Girl, One Day, Pants

  "Song: "Miss Me" ("Thank Me Later")". June 1, 2010.

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• When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

  Byron Katie

  Pain, Influence, Results

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2010

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• The church does not need apologists of its causes nor crusaders of its battles, but sowers humble and confident of the truth, who ... trust of its power

  Pope Francis

  Humble, Church, Battle

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• The direction in which we are moving is more important than where we are at the moment. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Moving, Goal, Important

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• You can’t stop my voice cause
  You don't own my life but
  Do what you want (with my body)

  Lady Gaga

  Voice, Body, Want

  Song: Do What U Want, Album: ARTPOP, 2013

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• If you don't feel pretty, you're wrong. If you're dealing with a problem, don't be afraid to talk. And... If you think you're alone, listen to my music 'cause I'm here for you.

  Demi Lovato

  Thinking, Problem, Feels

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• Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Frustration, Perfection, Worst

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.135, Knopf

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• Power seeking to manifest causes desire within you.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Desire, Manifest, Within You

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• You’ve got to be crazy! It’s too late to be sane, too late. You’ve got to go full tilt bozo... ‘Cause you’re only given a little spark of madness... and if you lose that, you’re nothing

  Robin Williams

  Crazy, Too Late, Tilt

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• But fear - panic - knows no reason. It brings into being overnight the things that it fears. It is the greatest torment of humanity. Fear is, in short, the devil. It causes most of the sin, disaster, disease and misery of the world. It is the ravening lion roaming the earth seeking whom it may...devour. The only refuge is in the knowledge that it has no power other than the power you give it.

  Robert Collier

  Giving, Humanity, Devil

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• Hand writing causes thinking - the repetition of writing your goal everyday will increase your awareness. The true purpose of a goal is to help you grow.

  Bob Proctor

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 12, 2013

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• The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things

  James Howard Kunstler

  Distance, Cities, Two

  James Howard Kunstler (1994). “Geography Of Nowhere: The Rise And Declineof America'S Man-Made Landscape”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to put in the rest of the day pleading for the damnation of the human race. I cannot seem to get my prayers answered, yet I do not despair.

  Mark Twain

  Morning, Prayer, Reading

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• Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert.

  Giovanni Boccaccio

  Climbing, Mountain, Desert

  Giovanni Boccaccio, Charles Balguy (1822). “The decameron, or, Ten days' entertainment, of Boccaccio:”, p.148

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• Mind is the cause; everything else is effect.

  Alan Cohen

  Mind, Mindfulness, Effects

  Alan Cohen (2006). “Relax Into Wealth: How to Get More by Doing Less”, p.36, Penguin

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