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• I feel like I know it is from my heart and God knows it is for a good cause, it is not necessary to be made public.

  Terrell Owens

  Heart, Causes, Made

  "T.O. With Terrell Owens". Interview With Victor Kelly, www.ign.com. July 8, 2004.

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• A Path Appears is an insightful book focused on how individuals can contribute to positive change and the remarkable people behind the organizations that make it happen. The authors' desire to motivate people to support good causes, learn about the situation in other countries, and find the best way to help their fellow men and women is inspiring.

  Angelina Jolie

  Country, Book, Men

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• Draw Dyrnwyn, only thou of noble worth, to rule with justice, to strike down evil. Who wields it in good cause shall slay even the Lord of Death.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Evil, Justice, Noble

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.149, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Too many of us dissipate our energy by being 'for all good causes,' attending meetings and passing resolutions, organizing and presenting petitions — all this effort to change others, when if we really got down to it we could use this energy to change ourselves… We become tired radicals because we use our weakest weapon: the ballot box, where we are always outnumbered, and refuse to use our strongest weapon: spiritual power.

  Ammon Hennacy

  Spiritual, Tired, Effort

  Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.249, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The great thing is these days I no longer have to work for a living and that all of the things that I'm able to do where money is paid as compensation for whatever it be, I'm able to donate all of that to charity. That's a wonderful position to find yourself in at the latest stages of your life and I'm proud to have walked the path that I have and I'm proud to be able to continue working and to be able to give away what I earn to some very good causes here in the Southwest.

  Robin Leach

  Giving, Finding Yourself, Charity

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• I've lost a lot. I've lost money, and my reputation has taken a hit for taking the high road to protect my dignity, to protect children, and for other good causes. But I don't think there's ever too steep a price for doing the right thing.

  Gabrielle Union

  Children, Taken, Thinking

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I know that the fact that I am candidate to my own succession in 2017 can be perceived to be a bad thing by some part of the public opinion outside Rwanda and I don't mind because I know that I am doing it for a good cause. It really doesn't matter to me that my name is associated to those critics as long as I know that I am doing the will of the people.

  Paul Kagame

  Names, Long, People

  "Paul Kagame Interview in Jeune Afrique: 'Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy'". umuvugizi.wordpress.com. April 9, 2016.

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• It's always exciting to get together with fellow artists to support a good cause.

  Frankie J. Grande

  Artist, Support, Together

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• The Los Angeles Times reported that sixty-three percent of American families are now considered dysfunctional. Good. 'Cause that means when Armageddon really happens, thirty-seven percent of this population is going to lose their minds. Oh my God, the world is over! Us sixty-three percent? We're going to go, Hey... there's no one watching the Lexus dealership! We're going to the Apocalypse with leather and a CD changer! You guys have been great. Thank you.

  Christopher Titus

  Mean, Cds, Guy

  "Christopher Titus: Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding". Comedy, One-man Show, www.imdb.com. June 06, 2004.

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• The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done by our brains, and essential both to our cultures and to our very survival, are epiphenomena of the computing power of this machine, not genetically grounded Darwinian entities created specifically by natural selection for their current function.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Brain, Survival, Essentials

  "An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Cardboard Darwinism", pp. 48 - 49, 1987.

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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, 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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• If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.

  Eddie Vedder

  Play, Causes, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You’re going to share a Moon Pie? Now? You know you can’t get any more of those until you go back to the Sates, right? (Geary) It’s for a good cause. We need more addicts. Besides, there’s always Grandpa to bail me out with an emergency shipment if I get too desperate. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Moon, Pie, Grandpa

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• Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have their 'Giving Pledge,' where billionaires promise to give away the majority of their wealth when they die. My Social Security Pledge is better - to give money to good causes when you are alive. Besides, more Americans can participate.

  Mark Skousen

  Giving, Promise, Bills

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• There was a time when I thought I was doing a good thing with good guys for a good cause. Looking back, I think I really wanted to be a warrior.

  Steven Seagal

  Warrior, Thinking, Guy

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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, Causes, Good War

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

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• We’re looking for anything to do with the Rod of Time. (Sin) Rod of Time, Forsaken Moon, Tablet of Destiny…you Sumerians really liked your hokey terms, huh? (Kat) They didn’t exactly ask my opinion before they named them. (Sin) Good, ‘cause my estimation of your intellect would be seriously scarred if they had. (Kat)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Moon, Destiny, Would Be

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• Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his little piece of a soul wasn't no good 'less it was with the rest, an' was whole.

  John Steinbeck

  Wrath, Soul, Pieces

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.338, Hamilton Books

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• What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.

  Robert Stone

  Moving, Writing, Space

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• By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.' 'I shall be delighted.' 'You don't mind breaking the law?' 'Not in the least.' 'Nor running a chance of arrest?' 'Not in a good cause.' 'Oh, the cause is excellent!' 'Then I am your man.' 'I was sure that I might rely on you.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Running, Men, Law

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.172, Race Point Publishing

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• War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Numbers, People

  Howard Zinn (2012). “Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches, 1963-2009”, p.235, Haymarket Books

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• While waiting for promised blessings, one should not mark time, for to fail to move forward is to some degree a retrogression. Be anxiously engaged in good causes, including your own development.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Moving, Blessing, Waiting

  Eleanor Knowles, Howard W. Hunter (1994). “Howard W. Hunter”, Deseret Book Co

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• It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

  Stephen King

  Simple, Greed, Causes

  Stephen King (2017). “The Dark Tower Boxed Set”, p.2746, Simon and Schuster

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• It's nice to go to small places where we had a lot of fans. They followed our career and it's kind of a way to say thank you to them and do it for a good cause.

  Guy Lafleur

  Thank You, Nice, Careers

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• A lot of times things get blown out of proportion in a negative light, especially in the NBA, ... But there are a lot of players in the NBA who really care about the community and want to use their basketball-playing ability for a good cause.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Player, Light

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