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“While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring the continuance of its policy - in face of the determination of the opposing state to pursue a contrary policy. In the human will lies the source and mainspring of conflict.”

Humans War States Faces Lying Causes Military Policy Objects Source Conflict Determination Fundamentals Contrary Pursue Opposing Human Will Continuance

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.”

Ifs Doe Political Politics Causes Party Moral Determination Foundation Conspiracy Political Parties

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956

“I believe that all technological societies tend to self-destruct. The reason is that the very things that make us a successful technological society, such as our curiosity, our ambition and determination, will also cause us to fall.”

Believe Self Reason Fall I Believe Causes Successful Ambition Determination Curiosity Technological Self Destruct

Author:Pete Seeger

“Upon the whole, necessity is something, that exists in the mind, not in objects; nor is it possible for us ever to form the most distant idea of it, consider'd as a quality in bodies. Either we have no idea of necessity, or necessity is nothing but that determination of thought to pass from cause to effects and effects to causes, according to their experienc'd union.”

Mind Ideas Whole Body Form Causes Quality Effects Objects Determination Unions No Idea

Book:A Treatise of Human Nature

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature

“This is your court and you possess the force to celebrate the trial and convict me on the basis of your lists of accusations, the public one and the secret one, and you can dictate a sentence prepared by the political and security apparatuses that are behind this trial. But I too possess a will obtained from the justice of our cause and the determination of our people to reject any decision from this 'kangaroo court'.”

People Political Force Causes Justice Decision Secret Behinds Security Determination Bases Court Prepared Sentences Lists Trials Celebrate Rejects Accusation Convicts Kangaroos

Author:Ahmad Sa'adat

“Delays, disappointments and defeats cause quitters to give up in resignation; losers, to give in the frustration; winners, to come through with determination.”

Giving Causes Giving Up Determination Defeat Disappointment Winner Frustration Loser Delay Resignation Quitter

Author:William Arthur Ward

“Our determination to defend our values and way of life is greater than their (terrorists) determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism upon the world.”

People World Way Life Is Desire Values Causes Greater Determination Destruction Terrorist Innocent Extremism

Author:Tony Blair

“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”

“Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.”

Inspirational Causes Change Chance Fate Determination Void Chances Are Fate Destiny Fate And Destiny

Book:Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.”

Book:Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward

Source: Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward

“A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.”

“One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.”

Inspirational Motivational Causes Sports Common Habit Determination Perseverance Defeat Work Out Quitting Temporary Think And Grow Rich Think Rich Grow Rich Temporary Defeat

Book:Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

“Refugee problems may often seem intractable but they are not insoluble. In our experience there are two basic prerequisites for solution: the political will of leaders to tackle the causes and to settle for peace, and international determination to push for peace and then to consolidate it. Consolidating peace means helping societies emerging from war to reintegrate refugees in safety and dignity, to rebuild their institutions - including in the field of justice and human rights - and to resume their economic development.”

“There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder: because they are the targets of a massive and well-organized campaign of disinformation lavishly funded by polluters who are determined to prevent any action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming out of a fear that their profits might be affected if they had to stop dumping so much pollution into the atmosphere.”

Source: The Assault on Reason: Our Information Ecosystem, from the Age of Print to the Era of Trump

“Effort is between you, and you, and nobody else. So that team that thinks it's ready to see you, they think what they've seen on film, they ain't saw what film shows, because every day is a new day. Every moment is a new moment. So now you've got to go out and show them that I'm a different creature now, than I was five minutes ago, cause I'm pissed off for greatness. Cause if you ain't pissed off for greatness, that just means you're okay with being mediocre, and ain't no man in here okay with just basic.”

Ifs Thinking Men Mean Different Moments Shows Film Causes Effort Five Saws Team Minutes Greatness Ready Creatures Determination Okay Mediocre Five Minutes New Day Being Me Pissed Off

Author:Ray Lewis

“Determination will make you find the path to your goals. It will cause you to educate yourself on what it will take to reach your goals. It will move you to take the path less traveled and it will push to do the work that's required to reach your goal.”

Moving Causes Goal Path Determination Educate Traveled Reaching Your Goals

Author:Jean Charest

“At the moment I am occupied by an investigation with Kirchoff which does not allow us to sleep. Kirchoff has made a totally unexpected discovery, inasmuch as he has found out the cause for the dark lines in the solar spectrum and can produce these lines artificially intensified both in the solar spectrum and in the continuous spectrum of a flame, their position being identical with that of Fraunhofer's lines. Hence the path is opened for the determination of the chemical composition of the Sun and the fixed stars.”

“From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the whole empire of Nature and a determination of the applicability of every species of knowledge to the improvement of his art.”

Art Whole Science Causes Knowledge Students Determination Species Expected Improvement Empires Investigation Physicians Inquiry

Author:John Gorrie

“United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God's help, go forward to our greatest victory.”

World War Helping Fighting Causes United Victory Determination War Of The Worlds Wwii World War 2 Unshakable Greatest Victory Unshakable Faith

Book:Crusade in Europe

Source: Crusade in Europe

“Dedication is loyalty to a cause, even when hope has long expired for a successful outcome. It is an unstoppable determination to win regardless of the odds.”

Long Winning Causes Successful Determination Loyalty Outcomes Dedication Odds Unstoppable Expired

Author:Wes Fesler

“A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance, a system that no longer tolerates the opposition of activity and passivity, nor that of cause and effect, or of indetermination and determination, etc., such that in designating consciousness as an effect or a determination, one continues - for strategic reasons that can be more or less lucidly deliberated and systematically calculated - to operate according to the lexicon of that which one is de-limiting.”

Reason Causes Consciousness Effects Activity Determination Opposition Etc Tolerate Strategic Cause And Effect Passivity Lexicon

Author:Jacques Derrida

“Observe the life by cause and consequence. Explore the life by wisdom. Treat the life by equality. Complete the life by love.”

Faith Causes Balance Consequence Determination Treats Self Discipline

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth - right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.”

“For this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now engaged, with a determination worthy of a more hopeful cause, in endeavoring to conquer the South.”

Ifs War Nations Causes Determination South Worthy Conquer Engaged Civil War Hopeful Conquest

Author:Arthur Fremantle

“The responsibility for the risks we posed to others in some of our most extreme actions in those underground years never leaves my thoughts for long. The antiwar movement in all its commitment, all its sacrifice and determination, could not stop the violence unleashed against Vietnam. And therein lies cause for real regret.”

Years Long Real Action Lying Causes Responsibility Violence Risk Sacrifice Movement Regret Commitment Determination Extremes Vietnam Antiwar My Thoughts Unleashed

Author:Bill Ayers

“Ax: 100 Every thing doth naturally persevere in yt state in wch it is unlesse it bee interrupted by some externall cause, hence... [a] body once moved will always keepe ye same celerity, quantity & determination of its motion.”

States Body Science Causes Determination Moved Quantity Bees Persevere Interrupted

Author:Isaac Newton

“We pledge our loyalty; we affirm our determination to be of good courage; we declare, sometimes even publicly, that come what may we will do the right thing, that we will stand for the right cause, that we will be true to ourselves and to others. Then the pressures begin to build. Sometimes these are social pressures. Sometimes they are personal appetites. Sometimes they are false ambitions. There is a weakening of the will. There is a softening of discipline. There is capitulation. And then there is remorse, self-accusation, and bitter tears of regret.”