#symptom

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#ignore #instruments #irrelevant #movements #once

For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#beyond #cause #causes #i #just

Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity? ↗

— Paul Ryan

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And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others. ↗

— Thomas More

#applying #complication #diseases #fall #ill

Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation. ↗

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

#carrying #civilisation #disease #disintegration #forbidden

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press. ↗

— Roger Kahn

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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#i #make #mercy #possible #severe

I like Mitch Daniels on the fiscal conservative issues. You disagree with him on this idea that social issues, you takeoff the table. I do that for two reasons. I think the fiscal issues in a sense are a symptom of a lot of the deeper cultural issues in America. I don't think they are as disconnected as he thinks. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#conservative #cultural #cultural issues #daniels #deeper

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

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The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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