#causes

You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

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There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

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Great causes and little men go ill together. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#go #great #ill #little #little men

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. ↗

— Plato

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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction. ↗

— Plato

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The wise have pitied the fool that hath striven to give a life In the world of time and space among the bulks of actual things, To dream that was dreamed in the heart, and that only the heart could hold. Oh wise men, riddle me this: What if the dream come true? ↗

— Pádraig Pearse

#dreams #dreams-coming-true #reality #dreams

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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