1,037 Quotes About Cause

  • Author Octavio Paz
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    The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.

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  • Author Peace Pilgrim
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    Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

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  • Author Richard Pound
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    I said, 'Please, you don't have to offer me a million bucks. I want to do this cause it's right for the Olympics,'

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  • Author Richard Preston
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    The genome could be thought of as a kind of piano with twenty-five thousand keys. In some cases, a few keys may be out of tune, which can cause the music to sound wrong. In others, if one key goes dead the music turns into a cacophony, or the whole piano self-destructs.

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  • Author Roger Patterson
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    There's a good spirit of cooperation around this. Droughts sometimes cause people to think differently.

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  • Author Scott Petersohn
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    These are 10- to 12-foot (3- to 4-meter) waves. They can literally pile-drive you into the bottom. The longer it sits nearly stationary, the more problems it's going to cause in the long run.

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