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Monday, June 17th, 2024
the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
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Quotations regarding 'Cause'

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For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.
David Foster Wallace, American Writer (1962-2008)
It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'
Neale Donald Walsch, Author
We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
Sam Walton, American Businessman (1918-1992)
We can not underestimate the potential harm North Korea's capabilities can cause for the rest of the world.
Zach Wamp, American Politician (1957-  )
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
William Arthur Ward, American Writer
The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.
Mercy Otis Warren, American Playwright (1728-1814)
A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'
Paul Watzlawick, Austrian Psychologist (1921-  )
My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.
George Weah, Liberian Politician (1966-  )
It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.
Simone Weil, French Philosopher (1909-1943)
Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
Simone Weil, French Philosopher (1909-1943)
I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.
Rachel Weisz, British Actress (1971-  )
Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
Paul Wellstone, American Politician (1944-2002)
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
Eudora Welty, American Author (1909-2001)
You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.
Morris West, Australian Writer (1916-1999)
Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem.
Margaret J. Wheatley, American Writer
Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey?
Roger Wicker, American Politician (1951-  )
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist (1854-1900)
I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
Wendell L. Wilkie, American Lawyer (1892-1944)
What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day's high and most likely 'breaks' out to the upside to close above a trading range. This is the twitching worm that causes the public to leap before they look.
Larry Williams, American Musician (1935-1980)
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
Woodrow Wilson, American President (1856-1924)
 
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