It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.
Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.
There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.
This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?
I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.
I'm always amazed that people are shocked when their despicable action causes an equally despicable reaction.
Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.
Poverty? Wealth? Seek neither -- / One causes swollen heads, / The other, swollen bellies.
What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. And each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that.
We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness that can only lead to new crises.
What we commonly call death does not destroy the body, it only causes a separation of spirit and body.
The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.
Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.
It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life
If you look at the causes of the accidents, quite a few of them are operator error. We need people to be diligent and follow the rules of the road and drive more defensively.
A devotion to humanity is... too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty.
People, whatever their profession is, have a right to fight for the right causes.
When I was growing up, hand washing was a ritual, but now it's a necessity. A child dies every 15 seconds from preventable causes, which has got to stop.
Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.
For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.
One of the most important of all the causes of great inequality of income is the inheritance of a great fortune by a small minority.
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.
There's no doubt that we are, by traditional automotive manufacturing standards, an automotive conglomerate. And so that causes confusion by definition.
Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.
Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.
I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.
However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.
Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause.
War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.
... the effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for fast results causes them to degenerate.
Syn has a brain disorder that causes him to lie most of the time. Ignore him. (Nykyrian)
Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.
Seeing other people in pain causes me pain.
It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.
Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment of worthy causes.
People increase their use of the term 'sir' when their angry. Little do they know, it only causes me to feel more like I'm wearing a top hat.
If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
No one conceals something in his heart, but Allah causes it to be seen on his face or in a slip of the tongue.
Scientific achievements seem evanescent, because the very progress of science causes their supersedure; yet some of them are of so fundamental a nature that they are immortal in a deeper way.
Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.
To trace the series of these revolutions, to explain their causes, and thus to connect together all the indications of change that are found in the mineral kingdom, is the proper object of a THEORY OF THE EARTH.
I have lately returned from Harpers Ferry, to which place I was suddenly called, on the 17th instant, by causes the most disturbing and destructive to the peace and safety of this State.
Traditional Marxism attempted to argue against free enterprise by saying that capitalism causes poverty and that, therefore, socialism is necessary. That didn't work, because it was false.
In space, everything is dependent on everything else and one hiccup causes a lot of ripple effects.
Everybody is God. Everybody is the devil. And if you don't realize you have both parts, that's what really causes problems.
Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.
Non-reaction is a language that everyone understands. It communicates to the offender and causes him to be upset with the upset that he intended for you.
To me, 'Chopped' is a great platform for championing great causes.
If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others.
Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life.
What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
Good girls don't hurt other people's feelings. Good girls are not overly aggressive, competitive, or boastful. Good girls please others. But what good girls are good for is another question.
There's no reason to continue including language in the federal spending bill to prohibit the CDC and NIH from studying the causes or effects of gun violence on public health.
I believe American manhood is too valuable to be sacrificed on foreign soil for foreign issues and causes.
The surgeon general warned today that saliva causes stomach cancer. But apparently only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.
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