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If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.

John Stuart Mill (1858). “A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation”, p.224

When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.

John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author”, p.312

A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.189

Cause my wife gets up and goes shopping.

"The Tavis Smiley Show", June 14, 2004.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God.

"Chillin' with Cube". Interview with Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2000.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.293