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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

I have lately returned from Harpers Ferry, to which place I was suddenly called, on the 17th instant, by causes the most disturbing and destructive to the peace and safety of this State.

Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time.

Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.

I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.

My life has ever been devoted to her service from my youth up, though never before in a cause like this - a cause for which I would most cheerfully risk and lay down my life.

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don't deal with the causes we will never be safe.

The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.