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Jai Ganesh

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Causes Quotes

Causes Quotes

1. 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. - Chanakya

2. It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole. - Dmitri Mendeleev

3. In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. - Julius Caesar

4. Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes. - Vladimir Lenin

5. All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. - Aristotle

6. 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

7. There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made. - Michelle Obama

8. The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

9. Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime. - Tony Blair

10. We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries. - Harry S Truman

11. A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. - T. S. Eliot

12. The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle. - Leonardo da Vinci.

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