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Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people. ↗

— Austin Peck

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Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind. ↗

— John Tillotson

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I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems. ↗

— James Cash Penney

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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. ↗

— Alan Perlis

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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. ↗

— Jean Piaget

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I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. ↗

— Plato

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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction. ↗

— Plato

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