#causes

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so. ↗

— Edwin Armstrong

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Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials. ↗

— Avicenna

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All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it. ↗

— Charles Fillmore

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We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

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We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television. ↗

— Gerald McRaney

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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself. ↗

— Billy Joel

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I'm not telling people where to give money, but if there is to be a spotlight shed on me, then I'd like to direct that spotlight onto causes I think are worthy or onto interesting, progressive figures. ↗

— Scarlett Johansson

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It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

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I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

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I've campaigned for people. I've campaigned across the country for people. I have supported people in local elections. I do work with groups and causes. So, I feel like I am a participant and a civically-engaged citizen. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

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