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  I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Friendship, Sad, Philosophy

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803”, p.130, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.

  Christopher Bond

  Small Business, Taxes, Dissolution

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• I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

  Edwin Howard Armstrong

  Ignorance, People, World

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

  Jules Renard

  Ideas, World Suffering, Cold

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Japan, Europe, Usa

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• Evil events from evil causes spring.

  Aristophanes

  Spring, Evil, Events

  Aristophanes, Thomas Mitchell (1820). “The comedies of Aristophanes”

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• It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.

  Thomas Troward

  Law, Range, Endure

  Thomas Troward (2007). “The Edinburgh and Dore Lectures on Mental Science”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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• Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

  Clarence Darrow

  Fighting, Lost, Worth Fighting For

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• I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.

  Claudia Christian

  Christian, Scripts, Good Christian

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• Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

  Blaise Pascal

  Our Actions, Morality, Source

  Blaise Pascal, Roger Ariew “PensŽes”, Hackett Publishing

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• It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

  Fletcher Knebel

  Science, Marijuana, Smoking

  Reader's Digest December 1961

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• There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.

  Jesse Ventura

  Government, Good Causes

  Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.17, Villard

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• ...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Heart, Three, Daggers

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• But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Higher, Our Thoughts

  Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1994). “Bayonet! Forward: my Civil War reminiscences”, Butternut & Blue

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• The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

  J. D. Salinger

  Growing Up, Maturity, Men

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Grief, Loss

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• Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Freedom, Increase

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.433, Transaction Publishers

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