#causes

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#dominion #else #fate #final #god

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea. ↗

— Jules Renard

#cold #head #idea #less #suffering

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. ↗

— Elihu Root

#aim #argument #causes #conduct #creating

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. ↗

— Julius Caesar

#events #importance #result #trivial #war

All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it. ↗

— Charles Fillmore

#comes #contact #daily #essentially #high

The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#being #buddhism #causes #central #come

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. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#body #causes #everything #find #first

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. ↗

— James Tobin

#causes #depression #disasters #economies #failures

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. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#china #exclusion #goods #illegal #incident

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

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