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“There is no cause from whose nature some effect does not follow.” Baruch Spinoza, “Ethics” - 1677

“Every why hath a wherefore.” William Shakespeare, “The Comedy of Errors” - 1623

“The appearance of a cause always conveys the mind, by a customary transition, to the idea of the effect.” David Hume, “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding” - 1748

“For surely, if there be any relation among objects which it imports to us to know perfectly, it is that of cause and effect.” David Hume, “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding” - 1748

“What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner ‘I stand for consensus’?” Margaret Thatcher, “The Downing Street Years” - 1993

“Yet a revolution cannot begin until the diffuse, private indignation of individuals coalesces into a common cause.” Simone de Beauvoir, “The Second Sex” - 1949

“Make the advocacy of radical causes sufficiently remunerative, and the supply of advocates will be unlimited.” Milton Friedman, “Capitalism and Freedom” - 1962

“God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.” Baruch Spinoza, “Ethics” - 1677

“The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... or change.” Stephen King, “The Stand” - 1978

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David Hume (2)
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (2)
Ethics (2)
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The Second Sex (1)
Capitalism and Freedom (1)
The Stand (1)