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“Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.”

Long Ends Eye Causes Break Effects Holiness Breaking Down Whiteness

Author:Charles Simeon

“The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end”

Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01

“If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.”

Ifs World Way Giving Ends Causes Regret

Book:Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age

Source: Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age

“But all good things come to an end, often a sad angry miserable end. The cause for such an end can usually be whittled down to one of three things: money, sickness, love lost.”

Ends Three Lost Causes Angry Good Things Miserable Sickness Lost Love Three Things

Author:James Frey

“I'm a tomboy at the end of the day, so anything that causes me to have to run around, fight people, roll in the dirt, hop a fence - I'm all for it. So I really would love to do an action film.”

People Ends Running Action Film Fighting Causes The End Of The Day Hops Dirt Fence Action Films

Author:Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

“Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.”

Book Ends Seems Causes Absolutes Infinite Boredom

Book:Novalis: Philosophical Writings

Source: Novalis: Philosophical Writings

“What is... disturbing to me is that many of these pro-Israeli lawmakers sit on the House International Relations Committee despite the obvious conflict of interest that their emotional attachments to Israel cause... The Israeli occupation of all territories must end, including Congress.”

“Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.”

Ends Causes Rivers Environmental Finished Conservation No Point

Author:Rachel Carson

“We'll fight, not out of spite For someone must stand up for what's right 'Cause where there's a man who has no voice There ours shall go singing My hands are small I know But they're not yours, they are my own But they're not yours, they are my own I am never broken In the end only kindness matters In the end only kindness matters”

Knows Men Ends Matter Hands Fighting Causes Voice My Own Kindness Broken Singing Spite

Author:Jewel

“There's no such thing as a lost cause, or a dead end. Through persistence, attitude, and creativity, there's always an escape route.”

Ends Lost Causes Attitude Creativity Persistence Mma Routes Dead Ends Lost Cause

Author:Urijah Faber

“The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.”

Ends Causes Effects Revolution Civilization Scales Boredom Utopia Static Underestimated Large Scale

Author:William Ralph Inge

“For liberals, the observation that 'the peasants are revolting' is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter how far the ideological pendulum swings in the short term, in the end the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail.”

People Ends Matter Causes Term Common Optimism Common Sense Observation Swings Short Term Peasants Ideological Pun Bedrock Pendulums

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it.”

People World Ends Political Universe Politics Causes All Things Reign

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.”

Men Mean Ends Order Causes Development Capacity Employed Antagonism

Book:Philosophical writings

Source: Philosophical writings

“Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don't have causes. They only have enemies.”

People Ends Turns Causes Enemy Issues Competing Abstraction Jargon

Book:Literary Occasions: Essays

Source: Literary Occasions: Essays

“You work [as an actor] for a bit, and then the job ends 'cause you get thrown off a bridge. And then, you suddenly don't have a career and you have to wait for the next bit to come along. It's the most strange profession in the world.”

World Ends Jobs Next Actors Causes Bits Waiting Careers Strange Profession Bridges Thrown

Author:David Oakes

“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.”

“The prophet Isaiah ... points out what will be the cause of this change; for he says that hatred, quarrel, and fighting will come to an end, because men will have a true knowledge of God. "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters which cover the sea" (Isa. xi. ver. 9) Note it.”

Men Ends Earth Fighting Causes Water Hurt Lord Sea Holy Mountain Hatred Notes Prophet Quarrels Knowledge Of God True Knowledge

Author:Maimonides

“What happened in World War II was what happened in war generally, and that was whatever the initiating cause, and however clear the moral reason is for the war in which one side looks better than the other, by the time the war ends both sides have been engaged in evil.”

World Looks Has Beens War Ends Reason Evil Causes Sides Moral Clear Happened War Of The Worlds Engaged World War Ii World War I Both Sides

Book:Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches, 1963-2009

Source: Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches, 1963-2009

“But come, hear my words, for truly learning causes the mind to grow. For as I said before in declaring the ends of my words: Twofold is the truth I shall speak; for at one time there grew to be the one alone out of many, and at another time it separated so that there were many out of the one; fire and water and earth and boundless height of air, and baneful Strife apart from these, balancing each of them, and Love among them, their equal in length and breadth.”

Mind Said Ends Earth Speak Grows Causes Water Fire Air Grew Equal And Love Height Length One Time Strife Boundless Breadth Declaring Another Time

Author:Empedocles

“It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.”

Said Ends Today Political Causes Term Situation Evolution Consequence Terrorist Examination

Book:Infinite Thought

Source: Infinite Thought

“To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining 'cause she doesn't want to go to sleep. They're at their most enchanting 'cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, "Please don't let this end."”

Thinking Want Ends Causes Sleep Serious Please Daughter Entertaining Going To Sleep Bedtime Our Daughter Your Daughter Enchanting Cabaret

Author:Bill Nighy

“We may see how miraculously God defends our people, and makes us hope that, in spite of the malice of our enemies, He will bring our cause to a good and happy end, to the advancement of His glory and the deliverance of so many Christians from unjust oppression.”

People May Ends Christian Causes Enemy Glory Oppression Spite Unjust Advancement Malice Deliverance

Author:William the Silent

“When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the drug addict feels when indulging his or her habit. Temporary relief is soon followed by a craving for more. And in just the same way that taking drugs in the end only causes trouble, so, too, does much of what we undertake to fulfill our immediate sensory desires.”

Source: Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium

“You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And that, even if we abolish war, we shall not abolish hate and greed. So might it have been argued about slave emancipation, that slavery was but one aspect of human disgustingness, and that to abolish it would not end the barbarity that causes it. But did the abolitionists therefore waste their breath? And do we waste ours now in protesting against war?”

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