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If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths.

In some causes silence is dangerous.

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.

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.

It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

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.

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

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.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

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.

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.