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“Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.”

Made Causes Simple Technology Made It Efficient Banking Good Causes

Author:Mark Skousen

“I think people who are unhappy are always proud of being so, and therefore do not like to be told that there is nothing grand about their unhappiness. A man who is melancholy because lack of exercise has upset his liver always believes that it is the loss of God, or the menace of Bolshevism, or some such dignified cause that makes him sad. When you tell people that happiness is a simple matter, they get annoyed with you.”

People Thinking Men Believe Matter Causes Loss Simple Proud Exercise Unhappy Upset Unhappiness Melancholy Always Believe Annoyed Menace Liver Bolshevism

Book:Autobiography

Source: Autobiography

“The ability of nonintelligent people to understand the most complicated mechanisms and to use them has always been to me a cause of astonishment: their inability to understand simple questions is even more astonishing. The general acceptance of simple ideas is difficult and rare, and yet it is only when simple, fundamental, ideas have been accepted that further progress becomes possible on a higher level.”

Source: A History of Science: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece

“God is utterly simple; for every composite being necessarily has a cause of its own composition, and so, since God is the first principle of all things, there can be no real composition whatever in God. Now, in an utterly simple being there can be nothing that is not that simple being itself. In God, therefore, whatever really is, is the same as God, is the same as that which is, is the same as that which subsists, and hence necessarily subsists.”

Firsts Real Causes Simple Principles All Things Composition Being There Composites

Author:Bernard Lonergan

“Perhaps MacKinnon should reflect on these suggestions that the censorship issue is not so simple-minded, so transparently gender-against-gender, as she insists. She should stop calling names long enough to ask whether personal sensationalism, hyperbole, and bad arguments are really what the cause of sexual equality now needs.”

Needs Should Long Enough Asks Names Causes Simple Issues Calling Argument Gender Censorship Suggestions Hyperbole Sensationalism

Author:Ronald Dworkin

“Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.”

Giving Reason Left Nations Causes Simple Cases Fit Naked Passed Away

Book:The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)

Source: The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)

“My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I came along and my father said, "Oh, let Peter enjoy himself." What she did was leave musical instruments all around the house. Whistles, marimbas, squeeze boxes, a piano and organ. By age six or seven, I could bang out a simple tune on almost anything. I developed a good ear, so I didn't learn to read music until I taught myself at age eighteen, 'cause I was hearing so many good songs I couldn't possibly remember them all.”

“A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when given ("qu'on lui donne", Fr.) a great cause to defend, and he will find only natural to sacrifice oneself for it.”

Men Self Given Causes Natural Simple Sacrifice Possibility Benefits Reflection Everyday Oneself Engaged Everyday Life Self Sacrifice Donne

Author:African Spir

“When you see someone dying in front of you from a direct and simple cause, it's easier to deal with [that] than famine or drought or a more indirect cause. It's overwhelming and frightening and kind of distant, but we do see it every day with plants and animals and species dying.”

Kind Causes Simple Animal Deals Dying Fronts Easier Direct Plant Species Overwhelming Frightening Famine Drought Indirect Plants And Animals Someone Dying

Author:John H Richardson

“Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.”

World Needs Causes Term Simple Views Effects Superstitions Cause And Effect

Author:Bernard Beckett

“But to measure cause and effect... you must ensure that a simple correlation, however tempting it may be, is not mistaken for a cause. In the 1990s the stork population of Germany increased and the German at-home birth rate rose as well. Shall we credit storks for airlifting the babies?”

Wells May Home Causes Simple Effects Baby Birth Rose Rate Population Credit Germany Mistaken Cause And Effect Tempting Correlation Pseudoscience Birth Rate Storks Home Birth

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The whole of natural theologyresolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous proposition, That the cause or causesof order in the universe probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence.”

Humans Whole Religion Order Universe Causes Natural Simple Bears Propositions Analogies Ambiguous Human Intelligence Order In The Universe

Author:David Hume

“Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health. If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly. There is no single more powerful -or more simple- daily practice to further your health and well being than breathwork.”

Ifs Wells Would Be Causes Simple Powerful Common Practice Advice Limits Ill Breathe Well Being Breathing Just One Ill Health

Author:Andrew Weil

“Mantras have an important place in meditation. But the idea has become somewhat prevalent in the West, and in the East to some extent, that the simple repetition of a mantra will eventually cause enlightenment”

Important Ideas Causes Simple Meditation Buddhism Enlightenment West East Repetition Mantras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It`s so simple just like that, 'cause it`s a shame that where you`re at isn`t always where you really wanna be.”

Causes Simple Shame

Author:Andy Biersack

“There is an incredibly large spectrum of possible causes for program bugs, including simple typos, "thinkos," hidden limitations of underlying abstractions, and outright bugs in abstractions or their implementation.”

Causes Simple Program Including Limitation Abstraction Bugs Spectrum Implementation Typos

Author:Guido van Rossum

“The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of that Cold War.”

War Form Political Belief Causes Simple Cold Assumption Soviet Cold War Hostile Political Life

Author:Robert Conquest

“I think we all understand disappointing yourself. Especially in the acting profession, which is probably similar to a political career, even the most stable, head-on-straight person is still going to be confronted with doing something that they shouldn't, that could affect their job or cause them not to be at their best - even if it's something as simple as taking a red eye for an audition at 6 a.m. the next morning and you know you'll be dragging.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Persons Stills Eye Jobs Political Next Causes Simple Acting Careers Morning Red Profession Stable Auditions Disappointing Red Eye

Author:Corey Stoll

“The basic cause of all our difficulties is immaturity. That's why I talk so much about peace within ourselves as a step toward peace in our world. If we were mature, war would not be possible and peace would be assured. In our immaturity we do not know the laws of the universe, and we think evil can be overcome by more evil. One symptom of our immaturity is greed, making it difficult for us to learn the simple lesson of sharing.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World War Would Be Law Universe Evil Causes Difficult Simple Steps Lessons Overcoming Difficulty Greed Mature Our World Symptoms Assured Immaturity Peace Within

Author:Peace Pilgrim