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Quotes About Causes

Achille Adrien Proust, was a famous doctor and epidemiologist, responsible for studying and attempting to remedy the causes and movements of cholera through Europe and Asia
~ Marcel Proust
The two chief causes of error in our relations with another person are, having ourselves a good heart, or else being in love with the other person.
~ Marcel Proust
It is, moreover, evident from hence that it is a greater matter to be truly and really holy than most persons are aware of. We may learn eminently how great and excellent a work this of sanctification and holiness is from the causes of it. How emphatically doth our apostle ascribe it unto God, even the Father: 1 Thess. v. 23, "Even the God of peace himself sanctify you." It is so great a work as that it cannot be wrought by any but the God of peace himself.
~ John Owen
the "axe is to be laid to the root of the tree," — the deeds of the flesh are to be mortified in their causes, from whence they spring.
~ John Owen
The great owners, striking at the immediate thing, the widening government, the growing labor unity; striking at new taxes, at plans; not knowing these things are results, not causes. Results, not causes; results, not causes.
~ John Steinbeck
The changing economy was ignored, plans for the change ignored; and only means to destroy revolt were considered, while the causes of revolt went on.
~ John Steinbeck
The great owners, striking at the immediate thing, the widening government, the growing labor unity; striking at new taxes, at plans; not knowing these things are results, not causes.
~ John Steinbeck
The great owners, striking at the immediate thing ... not knowing these things are results, not causes.
~ John Steinbeck
If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin,3 were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I,'' and cuts you off forever from the "we.
~ John Steinbeck
Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.
~ Patrick Swayze
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
~ Bertrand Russell
Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
~ Freya Stark
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
~ Alexander Pope
This covert or overt biological determinism, paraphrased in Freud's statement that anatomy is destiny, perhaps the most deep rooted obstacle to the analysis of the causes of women oppression and exploitation
~ Maria Mies
The enemies of the country and of freedom of the people have always denounced as bandits those who sacrifice themselves for the noble causes of the people.
~ Emiliano Zapata
Mandela's message will never die. It will continue to inspire freedom fighters and give confidence to people who defend just causes and universal rights.
~ Francois Hollande
I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.
~ Unknown
This is also known as patient-centered health care, rather than disease-focused medicine, and it is a fundamental underpinning of functional medicine—a revolutionary new way to understand the underlying causes of disease and how our genes, our environment, and our lifestyle interact to determine health or disease.
~ Mark Hyman
Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.
~ Liza Minnelli
On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors.
~ Martin Seligman
When we ruminate, we become fruitlessly preoccupied with the fact that we are unhappy and with the causes, meanings, and consequences of our unhappiness.
~ Mark Williams
It was not all quite so simple, that real equality between women and men was still a thing of the future, and that there were causes for anger as well as for celebration.
~ Mary Beard
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
~ Woody Allen
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
~ Samuel Johnson