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Causes Quotes - Page 19

Everything is cause and effect. If you don't move, nothing will move with you, and nothing will move toward you.

"Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

To help people emerge from the poverty, you have to understand, what are the structural causes of it? And the structural causes are partially cultural.

"Closing the Gap: Sen. Marco Rubio on how more education, fewer broken families can change income inequality". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. February 13, 2014.

Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.

Janette Oke (1990). “Father of My Heart”, Bethany House Pub

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

1687 Newton's First Rule of Reasoning in Philosophy. Philosophiae Naturalis PrincipiaMathematica (translated by Andrew Motte,1729).

How weak our mind is; how quickly it is terrified and unbalanced as soon as we are confronted with a small, incomprehensible fact. Instead of dismissing the problem with: "We do not understand because we cannot find the cause," we immediately imagine terrible mysteries and supernatural powers.

Guy de Maupassant (2015). “Guy de Maupassant – The Complete Works: Short Stories, Novels, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs and more: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Maupassant by Tolstoy, Joseph Conrad and Henry James”, p.1740, e-artnow

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.205, Vintage

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), Edmund Burke, Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine, Jean Gabriel Peltier (1834). “Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added the Arguement of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier”, p.87