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Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Spectator. The Guardian. The Lover. The present state of the war, and the necessity of augmentation, considered. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Freeholder

“Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.”

Love Causes Born Effort Anxiety Flesh Penetrate

Author:Andre Maurois

“Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living may suffer greatly, but they are not bored. Wealthy men and women become bored when they depend upon the theater for their enjoyment instead of making their own lives interesting.”

People Men May Suffering Causes Wealth Interesting Common Rich Depends Men And Women Difficulty Theater Bored Enjoyment Boredom Unhappiness Wealthy Idle Earning

Author:Andre Maurois

“When a belief vanishes, there survives it -- more and more vigorously so as to cloak the absence of the power, now lost to us, of imparting reality to new things -- a fetishistic attachment to the old things which it did once animate, as if it was in them and not in ourselves that the divine spark resided, and as if our present incredulity had a contingent cause -- the death of the gods.”

Ifs Reality Belief Lost Causes Divine Absence Attachment Sparks New Things Cloaks Belief In God Old Things Incredulity

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)

“We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of obituary notices in the newspapers.”

Form Death Causes Diversity Newspapers Peculiar Obituary Unexpectedness

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)

“When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.”

Men Jobs Causes Concern Harm Graves Venture Another Man Humorists

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.”

States Seems Today Artist Causes Ought Celebrate Occasions August Summoning

Author:Robert Frost

“I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honourable one the ambition of serving the great cause of truth, while endeavouring to forward the literature of the country.”

Believe Country Literature I Believe Causes Ambition Serving

Book:The letters of Edgar Allan Poe

Source: The letters of Edgar Allan Poe

“It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to pay moneyas they would to receive it; and, at the same time, a due respect for that body of men who have found out so pleasing an expedient for carrying on the common cause, that they have turned a tax into a diversion.”

People Men Body Government Found Causes Common Pay Taxes Presses Notion Credit Dues Administration Diversion Carrying On

Author:Gertrude Stein

“We should be wondering tonight, "Is there a world?" But I could go and talk on 5, 10, 20 minutes about is there a world, because there is really no world, cause sometimes I'm walkin' on the ground and I see right through the ground. And there is no world. And you'll find out.”

World Should Sometimes Causes Wonder Minutes Tonight

Author:Jack Kerouac

“Evolution does not attempt to explain the origin of life. It is simply a history of the process of life. With the secret cause of life evolution has nothing to do. A man, therefore, may be a materialistic evolutionist or a theistic evolutionist; that is, he may believe that the cause is some single unintelligent impersonal force, or he may believe that the cause is a wise and beneficent God.”

Men Believe May Doe Force Causes Process Secret Wise Evolution Materialistic Origin Of Life Unintelligent Process Of Life

Book:The Theology of an Evolutionist

Source: The Theology of an Evolutionist

“The offence is what is improperly called the death of an infant, who has ceased to be, before knowing what existence is, a result of a nature not to give the slightest inquietude to the most timid imagination; and which can cause no regrets but to the very person who, through a sentiment of shame and pity, has refused to prolong a life begun under the auspices of misery.”

Giving Persons Causes Imagination Results Existence Knowing Regret Shame Misery Pity Sentiments Infant No Regrets Offence

Book:Theory of Legislation

Source: Theory of Legislation

“Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes.”

Men Causes Process Chance Deals Mercy Accidents

Book:Bulletin

Source: Bulletin

“Society is celebrity-based and we are determined to use [celebrities'] voices to make sure no one forgets there are issues over the use of animals. Celebrities can be great for our cause and can really make people sit up and think for the first time about animal abuse.”

People Thinking Firsts Use Causes Voice Forget Animal Issues First Time Abuse Determined Animal Abuse

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“There is perhaps no sort of self more subject to dangerous egotism than that which deludes itself with the notion that it is not a self at all, but something else. It is well to beware of persons who believe that the cause, the mission, the philanthropy, the hero, or whatever it may be that they strive for, is outside of themselves, so that they feel a certain irresponsibility, and are likely to do things which they would recognize as wrong if done in behalf of an acknowledged self.”

Ifs Feels Believe Wells May Persons Self Done Certain Causes Subjects Dangerous Hero Strive Notion Missions Philanthropy Behalf Egotism Irresponsibility

Author:Charles Horton Cooley

“Open the book of universal history at what period we may, it is always the India trade which is the cause of internal industry and foreign negotiation.”

May Book Causes Industry Periods Universal India Trade Internals Negotiation

Book:The Martyrdom of Man

Source: The Martyrdom of Man

“I know all the songs that the cowboys know'bout the big corral where the doggies go,'Cause I learned them all on the radio.Yippie yi yo kayah”

Knows Bigs Song Causes Radio Cowboy

Author:Johnny Mercer

“The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and contribute to the permanent prosperity and strength of the country far more than the most splendid victories of successful war.”

Art War Country Causes Successful Victory Civilization Prosperity Triumph Permanent Splendid Having Hope

Author:Charles Babbage

“If we define a miracle as an effect of which the cause is unknown to us, then we make our ignorance the source of miracles! And the universe itself would be a standing miracle. A miracle might be perhaps defined more exactly as an effect which is not the consequence or effect of any known laws of nature.”

Ifs Might Would Be Law Universe Causes Known Effects Ignorance Source Consequence Standing Miracle Defined Laws Of Nature

Author:Charles Babbage

“The advanced members of the medical profession know that the health of society is not to be obtained or maintained by medicines; - that it is far better, far more easy and far wiser, to adopt substantive measures to prevent disease of body or mind, than to allow substantive measure to remain continually to generate causes to produce physical and mental disorders.”

Knows Mind Body Causes Easy Produce Members Disease Medicine Profession Medical Disorder Wiser Medical Profession Mental Disorder

Author:Robert Owen

“The advantage of pure, and the disadvantage of impure air are experienced each time we breathe, and all who understand the causes of disease know that an impure atmosphere is most unfavourable to the enjoyment of health, and an efficient cause to shorten human existence within the natural life of man. It is therefore most desirable that decisive measures should be devised and generally adopted to ensure to all a pure atmosphere, in which to live during their lives.”

Knows Men Should Humans Causes Natural Existence Air Pure Disease Advantage Breathe Atmosphere Enjoyment Efficient Desirable Adopted Disadvantages Human Existence Natural Life

Author:Robert Owen

“Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved.”

Causes Study Violence Effects Despite Pornography Cause And Effect

Author:Camille Paglia

“My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy.”

Sex Causes Differences Bases Stress Stereotype Controversy Sex Differences

Book:Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

“The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.”

Men Causes Leadership Leader Chosen Enthusiastic

Book:Essays and aphorisms

Source: Essays and aphorisms

“Our relationship with food - how, when, what and why we eat - is a direct expression of our underlying feelings, thoughts and beliefs about ourselves. It has to do with stances we take that get reflected not only in our relationship with food, but in all our relationships. It just so happens that the relationship with food causes enough conflict, grief, shame and hurt that we’re willing to look at it.”

Looks Enough Feelings Happens Belief Causes Hurt Grief Food Willing Expression Conflict Direct Shame Our Relationship Stance

Author:Geneen Roth

“Doth not this Æthereal Medium in passing out of Water, Glass, Crystal, and other compact and dense Bodies into empty Spaces, grow denser and denser by degrees, and by that means refract the Rays of Light not in a point, but by bending them gradually in curve Lines? And doth not the gradual condensation of this Medium extend to some distance from the Bodies, and thereby cause the Inflexions of the Rays of Light, which pass by the edges of dense Bodies, at some distance from the Bodies?”

Source: Opticks:: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light

“It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent; because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses. Yet the thing is not altogether desperate; for we have some arguments to guide us, partly from the apparent motions, which are the differences of the true motions; partly from the forces, which are the causes and effects of the true motions.”

Mean Matter Body Force Causes Differences Space Effects Particular Argument Difficulty Guides Senses Observation Desperate Cause And Effect

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)

“Do what you want to do, and go where you're going to. Think for yourself, 'Cause I won't be there with you.”

Thinking Want Causes What You Want Think For Yourself

Author:George Harrison

“What causes [fragmentation] if not a need to act that specializes us and limits us to the horizon of a particular activity? Even if it turns out to be for the general interest (which generally isn't true), the activity that subordinates each of our aspects to a specific result suppresses our being as an entirety. Whoever acts substitutes a particular end for what he or she is, as a total being.”

Ifs Needs Ends Turns Causes Interest Results Particular Activity Limits Aspect Substitutes Horizon Subordinates Entirety Fragmentation

Author:Georges Bataille

“[Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we fly with.”

Ends Causes Wings Serving Abandoned Pluck Zarathustra

Book:On Nietzsche

Source: On Nietzsche

“There is an international disease which feeds on the notion that if you have a cause to defend, you can use any means to further your cause, since the end justifies the means. As an international community, we must oppose this notion, whether it be in Canada, in the United States, or anywhere else. No cause justifies violence as long as the system provides for change by peaceful means.”

“From what cause the rite of baptism first proceeded is not expressed formally in the scripture, but it may be probably thought to be an imitation of the law of Moses concerning leprosy, wherein the leprous man was commanded to be kept out of the camp of Israel for a certain time, after which time being judged by the priest to be clean, he was admitted into the camp after a solemn washing. And this may therefore be a type of the washing in baptism, wherein such men as are cleansed of the leprosy of Sin by Faith, are received into the church with the solemnity of baptism.”

Men Firsts May Law Certain Causes Church Sin Type Clean Israel Scripture Priests Camps Judged Imitation Solemn Moses Washing Baptism Rite Solemnity Being Judged Leprosy

Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“Every man may think his own cause just till it be heard and judged.”

Thinking Men May Causes Heard Every Man Judged

Book:The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750

Source: The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750

“No man can be judge to his own cause.”

Men Causes Judging

Book:The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...

Source: The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...

“And in these four things, opinion of ghosts , ignorance of second causes, devotion towards what men fear , and taking of things casual for prognostics , consisteth the natural seed of religion ; which by reason of the different fancies, judgments and passions of several men, has grown up into ceremonies so different, that those which are used by one man, are for the most part ridiculous to another.”