#causes

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

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I have lately returned from Harpers Ferry, to which place I was suddenly called, on the 17th instant, by causes the most disturbing and destructive to the peace and safety of this State. ↗

— Henry A. Wise

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The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy. ↗

— Georges Rouault

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It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#causes #charity #donations #giving #holidays

The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is. ↗

— John Piper

#christ #christianity #god #kindness #life

Ain't no decent woman ever had that many husbands to die from natural causes. ↗

— K. Martin Beckner

#humor #natural-causes #widow #death

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#discover #entire #entire universe #equal #equal measure

People love me or hate me and all I think about is the people that I know and suffer with different causes and carry on my charity work and that's what keeps me alive really. ↗

— Heather Mills

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As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family. ↗

— Chanakya

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It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life. ↗

— Chanakya

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