The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.
~By Kenneth G. Wilson ~
I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.
~By William E. Simon ~
It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
~By Orson Scott Card ~
Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.
~By Dave Barry ~
Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
~By Francesco Guicciardini ~
Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
~By Avicenna ~
The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.
~By Tom DeLay ~
Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.
~By Kenneth Baker ~
The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.
~By William O. Douglas ~
You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there.
~By Brian Mulroney ~
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
~By Dorothy Thompson ~
Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.
~By Liza Minnelli ~
The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.
~By Kit Bond ~
I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.
~By Peter McWilliams ~
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
~By Plato ~
I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
~By Edwin Armstrong ~
If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.
~By Fatos Nano ~
I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.
~By David Brooks ~
I think that climatic changes have a natural causes according many geological data... I am very glad to sign the U.S. Senate's report of scientists against the theory of man-made global warming.
~By Uberto Crescenti ~
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?
~By Chauncey Wright ~
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
~By Clarence Darrow ~
But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
~By E. M. Forster ~
It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.
~By Michael Ignatieff ~
It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.
~By Jeff Ament ~
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.
~By Raymond Holliwell ~
Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing to be per-suaded that He chose not to do so and instead employed secondary natural causes like random mutation and natural selection.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
~By Julius Caesar ~
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
~By Saint Ignatius ~
It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.
~By Robert D. Kaplan ~
The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.
~By Richard Price ~
Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.
~By Keith Henson ~
Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.
~By Avicenna ~
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
~By Isaac Newton ~
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
~By E. M. Forster ~
I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
~By Pat Boone ~
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
~By Norman Douglas ~
It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.
~By Neville Chamberlain ~
In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.
~By Virginia Foxx ~
We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation.
~By Jon Voight ~
Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
~By Tony Blair ~
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
~By William Arthur Ward ~
The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.
~By Jean Piaget ~
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
~By H. Rap Brown ~
I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
~By E. M. Forster ~
Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.
~By Larry Elder ~
The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.
~By Charles Sturt ~
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
~By Eugene Ionesco ~
Psychiatry causes so much death.
~By Kate Millett ~
Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.
~By Jared Diamond ~
I don't know if people understand that there are different ways to raise money for great causes.
~By Rick Dees ~
The working classes were becoming more and more sharply aware of the complex causes of international malaise.
~By Leon Jouhaux ~
The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.
~By Georges Rouault ~
As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female.
~By Geena Davis ~
In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.
~By Gerald Clarke ~
Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.
~By Cat Stevens ~
To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.
~By Elihu Root ~
It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.
~By Chanakya ~
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.
~By Larry Williams ~
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
~By Johnny Cash ~
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
~By Wade Boggs ~
In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
~By Jorge Luis Borges ~
Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
~By Manly Hall ~
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.
~By Ashley Montague ~
I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.
~By Claudia Christian ~
First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.
~By Peter Nivio Zarlenga ~
In some causes silence is dangerous.
~By Saint Ambrose ~
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
~By Aristotle ~
So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.
~By Samuel E. Morison ~
Some of the immediate causes of Jack Abramoff's troubles were some Indian elections that went bad for him.
~By Joshua Micah Marshall ~
A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible.
~By William Baldwin ~
We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
~By M. Scott Peck ~
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 William Wordsworth ~
This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
~By Walter Ulbricht ~
Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.
~By Meir Kahane ~
I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing affordable health care, among other issues.
~By Howard Coble ~
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
~By Beatrix Potter ~
The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.
~By Elihu Root ~
A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
~By Jules Renard ~
All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.
~By Graham Chapman ~
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Grief causes suffering and disease.
~By Daniel D. Palmer ~
The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.
~By Joseph Butler ~
A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
~By Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus ~
Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal ideals.
~By Ali Hoseini Khamenei ~
I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
~By Thucydides ~
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
~By Fletcher Knebel ~
To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.
~By Gwen John ~
I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.
~By Brent Spiner ~
So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
~By Norman Lear ~
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
~By Elizabeth I ~
The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
~By Avicenna ~
The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
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