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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. -- Edgar Allan Poe
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. -- Paul Gallico
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life. -- Eudora Welty
I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts. -- Ronald Reagan
We live in a world of cause and effect. -- T. Harv Eker
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is the energizing elixir of the Universe, the cause and effect of all Harmony. -- Rumi
The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect. -- Jacob Bigelow
To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness. -- Ernest Holmes
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free. -- Swami Vivekananda
Karma, ahhh. We sow what we reap... We reap what we sow! We reap what we sow. The law of cause and effect. And we are all under this law. -- Nina Hagen
Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a world of cause and effect. -- T. Harv Eker
It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect. -- Thomas Troward
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws. -- Marianne Williamson
Study carefully the law of cause and effect. -- Vernon Howard
Logic is a poor model of cause and effect. -- Gregory Bateson
Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect. -- Bernard Beckett
Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal. -- Al Goldstein
I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect. -- Melanie Griffith
Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect. -- Edward M. Lerner
You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death. -- Joel Fuhrman
Nothing comes from nothing. -- Lucretius
Every why hath a wherefore. -- William Shakespeare
Boredom and booze--cause and effect. -- Samuel Hopkins Adams
Thoughts are nothing but cause and effect. -- Vaibhav Mukim
Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your world is one of cause and effect. -- T. Harv Eker
The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis. -- Douglas Adams
Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect. -- Thomas Jefferson
Where no bondage is, there is no cause and effect. -- Swami Vivekananda
Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental, not physical. -- Mary Baker Eddy
reach isn't describable in terms of cause and effect anymore: it's simultaneous. -- Jennifer Egan
Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect. -- Arthur Miller
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. -- Blaise Pascal
Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal -- Al Goldstein
The forgetting of the history of marginalized groups is both a cause and effect of their marginalization. -- Susan Jacoby
A timeline is a linear representation of cause and effect, changing one event alters all that follow. -- J.W. Lord
You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect. -- Hermann Hesse
The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wealth of the well-to-do of an industrial society is both the cause and effect of the masses' well-being. -- Ludwig von Mises
Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect. -- Albert Einstein
Everything is cause and effect. If you don't move, nothing will move with you, and nothing will move toward you. -- Michael J. Fox
It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim -- Jason Najum
To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect. -- Hosea Ballou
Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Synchronicity is a term used by Carl Jung to describe coincidences that are related by meaningfulness rather than by cause and effect. -- David Richo
I am not in the entertainment business. I don't give a damn if it was spectacular or not. I want cause and effect. -- Kirtida Gautam
We can teach children about natural consequences and cause and effect of their relationships which is really a mirror of what happens in nature. -- Shefali Tsabary
If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect. -- Clay Shirky
As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The law of cause and effect: If you do what other successful people do, you will eventually get the results that other successful people get. -- Brian Tracy
The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint. -- George Will
Newton's laws of physics can rarely be applied to the real world. There is more to life than cause and effect. Things just aren't that simple -- Amy Zhang
Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect. -- August Derleth
I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect. -- Hunter S. Thompson
The relationship between the obedience of Gods people and the triumph of Gods cause is not a relationship of cause and effect but one of cross and resurrection. -- John Howard Yoder
Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect ... -- Elizabeth Hardwick
If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect. -- Leo Tolstoy
Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk. -- W. L. George
The universal law of karma ... is that of action and reaction, cause and effect, sowing and reaping. In the course of natural righteousness, man, by his thoughts and actions, becomes the arbiter of his destiny. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
The more government takes the place of associations, the more will individuals lose the idea of forming associations and need the government to come to their help. That is a vicious circle of cause and effect. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
I like movies that pop, that have a little bit of candy on, that freedom to have a little bit of extra fun, but are rooted in real behaviour. Rooted in cause and effect, never violating reality. -- Tony Gilroy
Karma is the universal law of cause and effect. You reap what you sow. You get what you earn. You are what you eat. If you give love, you get love. Revenge returns itself upon the avenger. -- Mary Browne
The melded nature of space and time is intimately woven with properties of light speed. The inviolable nature of the speed of light is actually, in Einstein's hands, talking about the inviolable nature of cause and effect. -- Brian Greene
The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect. We have to train ourselves to be thinking in terms of longer-term results. -- Jamais Cascio
Although one may direct the future or past through the onerous linkages of temporal cause and effect, riding the breaking waves of the present and never once overstepping it, the better way is to go there and do it yourself. -- Mary-Jean Harris
And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after. -- David Levithan
Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary. -- Kiefer Sutherland
Support is not always easy to come by if you wait for the world to see your worth. Discover your own worth and the world will indeed follow your lead. Its the law of cause and effect! It has to happen. Support yourself. -- Sereda Aleta Dailey
This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin. -- Orson Scott Card
I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge. -- Michael Bloomberg
He no longer grasped to a strong sense of self. To him life felt more like a dream, a cascade of cause and effect that was completely up for grabs-and he was no longer separate from any of it. Because of that, he could do amazing things. -- James Connor
He no longer grasped to a strong sense of self. To him life felt more like a dream, a cascade of cause and effect that was completely up for grabs-and he was no longer separate from any of it. Because of that, he could do amazing things -- James Connor
But to measure cause and effect... you must ensure that a simple correlation, however tempting it may be, is not mistaken for a cause. In the 1990s the stork population of Germany increased and the German at-home birth rate rose as well. Shall we credit storks for airlifting the babies? -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understanding of cause and effect, cyclic existence, the awareness that the reality that we think we are seeing is not reality as it really truly is. So enlightenment is seeing reality with bare awareness, non-conceptual reality. -- Zeena Schreck
On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was recreation! ...The virtue of all this lay in the awakening of the childmind to rhythmic structure in Nature - giving the child a sense of innate cause-and-effect otherwise far beyond child-comprehension. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. -- George Henry Lewes
Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. -- Jean de la Bruyere
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. -- Henri Bergson
The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random. -- Robin Marantz Henig
The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns. -- Brock Yates
A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance. -- Henri Poincare
Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a paradigm switch from effect to cause. So how to be a cause in your own life. -- Roseanne Barr
What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Treat the cause not the effect. -- Edward Bach
We're not the cause, we're the effect. -- Nipsey Hussle
The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also -- Edward Coke
Every cause produces more than one effect. -- Herbert Spencer
War is just an effect, not a cause. -- Marianne Williamson
The mind is the effect, not the cause. -- Daniel Dennett
Take away the cause, and the effect ceases. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Mind is the cause; everything else is effect. -- Alan Cohen
As the cause is, so the effect will be. -- Swami Vivekananda
Cause and effect are never divided between two people. -- Max Frisch
A life without a cause is a life without effect. -- Paulo Coelho
The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all. -- Ovid
The effect is delusion, and therefore the cause must be delusion. -- Swami Vivekananda
Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect. -- Baruch Spinoza
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. -- William Cowper
There is no effect without a cause. Chiropractors adjust causes. Others treat effects. -- B. J. Palmer
Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause. -- Thomas Hobbes
Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause. -- Gregory Bateson
You cannot expect to get the effect when you neglect to create the cause. -- Ralph Marston
The Cause and Effect law is the secret gearing in the machinery of Nature. -- Samael Aun Weor
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Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced. -- Swami Vivekananda
Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved. ? -- Camille Paglia
Christendom, as an effect, must be accounted for. It is too large for a mortal cause. -- Frederic Dan Huntington
Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data. -- Djuna Barnes
The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future. -- Swami Vivekananda
Men bound hand and foot in the endless chain of cause & effect cannot free each other. -- Ramakrishna
In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe. -- Al Goldstein
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense. -- Bodhidharma

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