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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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• 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 automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

  Brock Yates

  Confused, Confusion, Car

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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 cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

  Ovid

  Effects, Visible

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• The cause is hidden, but the result is known.
  [Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]

  Ovid

  Results, Known

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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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• I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

  Jack L. Chalker

  Long, Historical, Supportive

  Jack L. Chalker (1988). “Dance Band on the Titanic”, Del Rey

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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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• The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

  Henri Bergson

  Time, Past, Found

  'L'Evolution crèatrice' (1907) ch. 1

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• We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.

  Carrie P. Meek

  Caring, Crime, Symptoms

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• Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.

  Freya Stark

  Pain, Sorrow, Debt

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.124, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

  Jules Renard

  Ideas, World Suffering, Cold

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• To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we dont deal with the causes we will never be safe.

  Peter Yarrow

  Hatred, Safe, Violence

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• In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Order, Literature, Infinite

  "Other Inquisitions". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1952.

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• The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.

  Jalal Talabani

  Past, Justice, Crime

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• Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Talking, Ideas, Leader

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• It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.

  Cameron Diaz

  Important, World, Making Changes

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• Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Change, Waste, Faces

  Francesco Guicciardini (1965). “Maxims and Reflections (Ricordi)”, p.54, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, All Things

  'Henry V' (1599) act 5, sc. 1, l. [3]

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• It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.

  Melinda Gates

  Children, Health, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Grief causes suffering and disease.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Grief, Suffering, Disease

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• Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.

  Ludwig Quidde

  War, Moving, Usual

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• If you want to understand the causes that existed in the past, look at the results as they are manifested in the present. And if you want to understand what results will be manifested in the future, look at the causes that exist in the present.

  Gautama Buddha

  Past, Looks, Want

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• Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Fruit, Ends

  Essays Compensation

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