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Quotes About Causes

Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.
~ Chuck Grassley
Our view. . . is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.
~ Sir Ronald A. Fisher
Feminism was good for me, as were any number of causes, but as I developed as a thinking person, the truisms and dogmas of every ideology became as worn as that book's cover.
~ Siri Hustvedt
You don't love causes. You don't love everybody indiscriminately. You love only those who deserve it.
~ Ayn Rand
But nations never die of the death of a man, however great he may have been; their birth and their death derive from other causes.
~ Maurice Druon
Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.
~ Bertrand Russell
There are two different evils about propaganda as now practised. On the one hand, its appeal is generally to irrational causes of belief rather than to serious argument; on the other hand, it gives an unfair advantage to those who can obtain most publicity, whether through wealth or through power.
~ Bertrand Russell
Descubre muchas cosas el científico; descubre muchas cosas que están sucediendo en el mundo, que son, al principio, comienzos de cadenas causales, primeras causas que no tienen causa en sí mismas. No supone que todo tiene una causa.
~ Bertrand Russell
all our reasonings concerning causes and effects are derived from nothing but custom; and that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cogitative part of our natures.
~ Bertrand Russell
the fact that the actual inequalities of power exceed what is made necessary by technical causes, can only be explained in terms of individual psychology and physiology.
~ Bertrand Russell
There are causes that are dear to me personally including encouraging entrepreneurship, improving livelihoods as well as helping humanitarian rescue and relief efforts.
~ Ritesh Agarwal
Debate about the causes and consequences of climate change and the policy positions taken in response to it should be encouraged, not silenced.
~ Luther Strange
The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.
~ Brian Moore
I knew from history that war comes with frightening regularity, often fought over the same ground and similar causes as previous conflicts.
~ Stanley A. McChrystal
and Bill Clinton broke with this archetype to devote their post-presidencies to humanitarian and other public causes. Previously, William Howard Taft, president
~ Joseph Wheelan
Though it's quite apparent that the environment has been grossly polluted and the natural world abused and defiled, you seem to prefer to continue pondering effects rather than preventing causes.
~ Joy Williams
un diario de referencia que no solo contara los hechos, sino que fuera capaz de explicar sus causas, enmarcarlos en un contexto y elaborar un análisis y una reflexión en torno a ellos.
~ Juan Luis Cebrián
To show what is still needed, let us examine how an ideal system might reason about the burglar alarm situation of Figure 1.2. Upon receiving the phone call from your neighbor, only the burglary hypothesis is triggered; your decision whether to drive home or stay at work is made solely on the basis of the parameter P(False alarm), which summarizes all other (unexplicated) causes for an alarm sound. After a moment's reflection, the possibility of an April Fools' Day joke may
~ Judea Pearl
Fairs to raise funds for the abolitionist movement also advertised trees.
~ Judith Flanders
Respeto a los hombres no por las batallas que hayan podido ganar sino por las causas que defienden
~ Julia Navarro
If you had told me when I was at high school that one day I would be working for a for-profit company, let alone running one, I would have said you were crazy. But I am interested in how you can empower individuals to make change, and Causes is doing just that.
~ Joe Green
Understanding the true causes of the Depression, as well as the real economic record of the United States in the 1930s, is an essential ingredient in anyone's economic and historical education.
~ Thomas Woods
People belittle or ignore or even rebel against God, because they view the processes of nature as having self-sufficient causes, normally regarded by them as ultimate. They do not realize that the universe is a sign pointing to something "beyond" itself, something without which the universe, with all its natural causes, would be and could be nothing.
~ Fazlur Rahman
The law has been perverted by the influence of two entirely different causes: stupid greed and false philanthropy. Let us speak of the first.
~ Frederic Bastiat