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Quotes About Causes

There were many causes of his unhappiness, but at heart I believe now, as I believed then, that it was essential y the result of growing up in a household, and a world, where emotional expression of any kind was at best frowned on and at worst strangled.
~ Caleb Carr
History is full of examples of men with deep-seated grievances who embraced good causes, in part at least, to settle old scores.
~ Carl Bridenbaugh
The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
~ Immanuel Kant
In managing pain, I teach patients a 0-to-10 scale so they can rate and record pain at different times of day, with various activities, and in response to medications and other treatments. And I review with people common descriptors of different types of pain—dull, achy, sharp, stabbing, cramping, tearing or burning, shooting, tingling, and pins and needles—that provide information to doctors about possible causes and specific treatments.
~ Ira Byock
The action of social revolution and the reaction of guarding against such revolution or combating it once it has begun are the causes of a great deal of the human misery with which history is permeated.
~ Isaac Asimov
In war events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
~ Julius Caesar
I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
~ Sam Simon
The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction.
~ Lester B. Pearson
Peace is the result of an inner state of harmony. It is not obtained by eliminating anything external, it is inside ourselves that we must find and suppress the causes of war.
~ Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.
~ Mary Robinson
When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.
~ Janet Flanner
In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.
~ Virginia Foxx
I stand for the education of the South African youth, for equality and representation, as Miss South Africa, I cannot wait to make a contribution to these important social causes.
~ Zozibini Tunzi
I have been driven by causes in almost every major endeavor in my life, beginning when I was a 16-year-old in Southern California where I wrote and published my own newspaper.
~ John W. Henry
pride was i was fine simple causeto be focus of the man who loved many sources those werehis focus . i lived in falsehood likean unknown and loved him all alone
~ litymunshi
pride was i am the fine simple causeto be focus of the man who loved many sources those werehis focus . i lived in falsehood likean unknown and loved him all alone
~ litymunshi
The Ten Major Causes of Failure in Leadership.
~ Napoleon Hill
THE THIRTY MAJOR CAUSES OF FAILURE
~ Napoleon Hill
For if you think that education causes wealth, rather than being a result of wealth, or that intelligent actions and discoveries are the result of intelligent ideas, you will be in for a surprise. Let us see what kind of surprise.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I mentioned earlier that to understand successes and analyze what caused them, we need to study the traits present in failures.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Huet presents arguments against causality that are quite potent—he states, for instance, that any event can have an infinity of possible causes.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
as reduced exposure is one of the causes behind such allergies).
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Observing certain types of behavior which they believed to be characteristic of the human species, instinct theorists decided that the causes of such behavior are innate, unchosen, and unlearned tendencies which drive man to act as he does.
~ Nathaniel Branden