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Quotes About Causes

There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.
~ William Shakespeare
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?
~ Winston Churchill
This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors
~ Unknown
Great quarrels, it has been well said, arise from small occasions but seldom from small causes.
~ Winston S. Churchill
almost universally recognized as a developmental disorder, multiply caused: genetic predisposition, pre- or postnatal viral infection, chromosomal damage, biological agents still unknown.
~ Unknown
Morse stared morosely at the blotting paper. "It's just not my sort of case, Lewis. I know it's not a very nice thing to say, but I just get on better when we've got a body - a body that died from unnatural causes. That's all I ask. And we haven't got a body.
~ Colin Dexter
All causes are good,' Yallin told her calmly. 'And those exact same causes are all bad, depending on which side a body's on. Regent Pettibone and his followers certainly thought your mother's cause was a bad one. To my mind, causes aren't about good or bad, in the end. They're about power. That's what makes them so dangerous.
~ Hilari Bell
The dead watch us, zealous in old causes.
~ Hilary Mantel
People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe
~ Hippocrates
Exist? dou? fa?ete ale istoriei, cea oficial?, mincinoas?, care ne este adus? la cuno?tiin?? pentru a fi înv??at? – ad usum delphini – ?i fa?eta secret?, în care se g?sesc adev?ratele cauze ale evenimentelor.
~ Honore de Balzac
The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
~ Unknown
The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
As you might imagine, I'm approached by lots of organizations and lots of people who want me to support their various charitable efforts in some way. And I look at those requests, and I basically try to do what I can.
~ Tracy Chapman
You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.
~ Vicente Fox
After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.
~ John Owen
Since 1990, British hospital admissions for food allergies have increased more than 500 percent, and one of the causes is that our diets have changed and expanded to include more processed foods.
~ Jen Lancaster
Phenomenalists are concerned with symptoms rather than causes: with rains of animals pouring from the sky; with impossible coincidences; with inexplicable sightings of creatures or objects. The conclusion these observations lead to is that there are, in fact, three modes of reality, hard, psychological and, between the two, phenomenal, and all of these are active, all blur into one, when truthfully described, without the need to immediately leap in with rational explanation.
~ Unknown
I write cheap recipes for struggling families and single people, and have donated 800 copies of my newest cookery book to food banks and other good causes.
~ Jack Monroe
I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years.
~ Martina Navratilova
I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
~ Vikram Seth
THE CAUSE of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that "A state half slave and half free cannot exist." All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
Don't think that you were born to gain this or that level of comfort. You were born to study pain and the causes of pain, and to follow the practice that frees you from pain. This is the most important thing there is. Everything else is trivial and unimportant. All that's important lies with the practice.
~ Unknown
You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.
~ Vicente Fox
People in cars cause accidents and accidents in cars cause people.
~ Garrison Keillor