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“The main problem, certainly, for the people who will not get vaccinated with Thimerosal, which was put into polio vaccine. And the belief was that it may cause autism. And there's been an awful lot done in terms of studies in Western Europe, Canada, the United States, and no correlation was found between Thimerosal and autism from those children who took vaccines. Indeed, when Thimerosal was taken out of many of these vaccines, the autism rate in the United States still rose.”

“I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country's laws can overcome all private fear, resentment, solicitation, and even pity it self. Whatever passion enters into a sentence or decision, so far will there be in it a tincture of injustice. In short, justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind, that we may suppose her thoughts are wholly intent on the equity of a cause, without being diverted or prejudiced by objects foreign to it.”

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Spectator [no. 487-600] The Guardian. The Lover. The present state of the war. The trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Freeholder [no. 1-30

“[The human mind] finds more facility in assenting to the self-existence of an invisible cause possessing infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, than in the self-existence of the universe, visibly destitute of these attributes, and which may be the effect of them.”

Mind Humans May Self Religion Universe Causes Existence Effects Goodness Infinite Invisible Human Mind Attributes Facility Possessing Destitute Infinite Power

Author:James Madison

“When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of any general notion and detached from the sanity of a cause, isolated and inexplicable in the light of ignorance, then and only then may it be a source of enchantment.”

May Art Light Causes Objects Ignorance Particular Source Members Unique Independent Notion Sanity Isolated Detached Enchantment Inexplicable

Book:The collected works of Samuel Beckett

Source: The collected works of Samuel Beckett

“The Government is able to afford a suitable army and a suitable navy. It may maintain them without the slightest danger to the Republic or the cause of free institutions, and fear of additional taxation ought not to change a proper policy in this regard.”

May Government Able Causes Danger Policy Ought Army Regard Institutions Republic Taxation Navy Suitable

Book:The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers

Source: The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers

“[Necessity is] the sum of all things, which being now existent, conduce and concur to the production of that action hereafter, whereof if any one thing now were wanting, the effect could not be produced. This concourse of causes, whereof every one is determined to be such as it is by a like concourse of former causes, may well be called (in respect they were all set and ordered by the eternal causes of all things, God Almighty) the decree of God.”

Ifs Wells May Action Causes One Thing Effects Eternal All Things Productions Determined Former Almighty Hereafter Decree Causality Concur

Book:Of Liberty and Necessity; a treatise, wherein all controversy concerning predestination, election, free will, grace, merits, reprobation, etc. is fully decided and cleared. New edition

Source: Of Liberty and Necessity; a treatise, wherein all controversy concerning predestination, election, free will, grace, merits, reprobation, etc. is fully decided and cleared. New edition

“We may well ask, What causes induce us to believe in the existence of body? but 'tis vain to ask. Whether there be body or not? That is a point which we must take for granted in all our reasonings.”

Believe Wells May Body Asks Belief Causes Existence Granted Vain Reasoning

Book:A Treatise of Human Nature: Revision of Great Book

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Revision of Great Book

“Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure the few natural events, that are intermingled with them. But as the former grow thinner every pagewe soon learn, that there is nothing mysterious or supernatural in the case, but that all proceeds from the usual propensity of mankind towards the marvellous, and that, though this inclination may at intervals receive a check from sense and learning, it can never be thoroughly extirpated.”

“I have been so electrically occupied of late that I feel as if hungry for a little chemistry: but then the conviction crosses my mind that these things hang together under one law & that the more haste we make onwards each in his own path the sooner we shall arrive, and meet each other, at that state of knowledge of natural causes from which all varieties of effects may be understood & enjoyed.”

Ifs Feels Mind May Littles Has Beens States Together Law Causes Natural Path Effects Late Understood Crosses Conviction Hungry Variety Enjoyed Chemistry Haste

Author:Michael Faraday

“Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford.”

Giving Should May Able Social Causes Interest Responsibility Reform Philanthropy Spares Social Responsibility Margins Undertakings Philanthropic Agitation Public Interest

Book:The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures

Source: The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures

“It seems that researchers at Colorado University say wine may help people lose weight. It's not the wine directly that causes the weight loss, it's all the walking around you do trying to find your car.”

People Trying May Helping Seems Causes Loses Loss Car Walking Weight Wine University Weight Loss Researchers Lose Weight Colorado

Author:Jay Leno

“We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.”

Knows May Fighting Lost Causes Alive Victory Expectations Defeat Triumph Temporary Successors Dismay Lost Cause

Book:Essays Ancient and Modern

Source: Essays Ancient and Modern

“When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good.”

Giving May Causes Damage

Author:Paul Mellon

“I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer. And perhaps with better cause, for while a buck pulled down by wolves can be replaced in two or three years, a range pulled down by too many deer may fail of replacement in as many decades.”

Years May Doe Two Three Causes Failing Mountain Decades Mortals Range Suspects Three Years Replaced Bucks Herds Deer Replacements

Book:A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“An entertainment is something which distracts us or diverts us from the routine of daily life. It makes us for the time being forget our cares and worries; it interrupts our conscious thoughts and habits, rests our nerves and minds, though it may incidentally exhaust our bodies. Art, on the other hand, though it may divert us from the normal routine of our existence, causes us in some way or other to become conscious of that existence.”

Way Mind May Art Body Hands Care Culture Causes Forget Existence Worry Habit Normal Conscious Entertainment Daily Life Nerves Routine Popular Culture Body Art

Book:The Politics of the Unpolitical

Source: The Politics of the Unpolitical

“The men who espoused unpopular causes may have been considered misguided, but they were rarely attacked for their morals or their masculinity. Women who did the same thing were apt to be denounced as harlots or condemned for being unfeminine - an all-purpose word that was used to describe almost any category of female behavior of which men disapproved.”

Men May Has Beens Used Purpose Causes Women Moral He Man Behavior Female Sexism Categories Masculinity Misguided Harlots

Author:Margaret Truman Daniel

“If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.”

Ifs May Causes Common Acting Lord Virtue Blood All Things Property Envy Thyself Rules Of Life

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“Horizontal hostility may be expressed in sibling rivalry or in competitive dueling which wrecks not only office tranquility or suburban domesticity but also some radical political groups and, it must be sadly said, some women's liberation groups. ... [it is] misdirected anger that rightly should be focused on the external causes of oppression.”

“When a couple gets to the last stage, one or both partners may have an affair. But an affair is usually a symptom of a dying marriage, not the cause. The end of that marriage could have been predicted long before either spouse strayed.”

May Long Has Beens Ends Lasts Causes Stage Dying Couple Affair Partners Spouse Symptoms Could Have Been Adultery

Author:John M. Gottman

“If we love a person, we love him, and whatever he may do will not affect our love. It may cause us pain if he does evil, because we love him; it may cause us sorrow and suffering; but it cannot affect our love.”

Ifs May Persons Doe Pain Suffering Evil Causes Sorrow Our Love

Book:The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals

Source: The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals

“True hope is based on the energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability of human affairs, and how slight a circumstance may change the whole course of events. Such a spirit, too, rests upon itself; it is not confined to partial views or to one particular object. And if at last all should be lost, it has saved itself.”

“long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in: but Providence in kindness to us causes us to forget it. It is much the same with lying-in women. Heaven permits this forgetfulness that the world may be peopled, and that folks may take journeys to Provence.”

“I imagine that thinking is the great desideratum of the present age; and the cause of whatever is done amiss may justly be reckoned the general neglect of education in those who need it most, the people of fashion. What can be expected where those who have the most influence have the least sense, and those who are sure to be followed set the worst examples?”

People Thinking Needs May Done Age Causes Imagine Influence Worst Fashion Example Expected Neglect Imagine That

Book:The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne: Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Esq., Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &c., &c. ; to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life

Source: The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne: Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Esq., Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &c., &c. ; to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life

“Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.”

May Seems Causes Moral Fire England Suicide Characteristics Bedroom Antipathy

Book:Romance and Reality

Source: Romance and Reality

“If I cannot narrate a life of adventurous and daring exploits, fortunately I have no heavy crimes to confess: and, if I do not rise in the estimation of the reader for acts of gallantry and devotion in my country's cause, at least I may claim the merit of zealous and persevering continuance in my vocation. We are all of us variously gifted from Above, and he who is content to walk, instead of to run, on his allotted path through life, although he may not so rapidly attain the goal, has the advantage of not being out of breath upon his arrival.”