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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
Saint Basil
Life
Thought
Trouble
Whatever
Our
Must
Involves
Around
Causes
Were
Effort
Revolve
Expenditure
Flesh
Requires
Avoided
Large
Whole
Amount
Christians
At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.
Salma Hayek
Life
Family
Me
My Life
Important
Point
Involved
Still
Causes
Very
Social
Now
So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.
Samuel E. Morison
Myself
History
Garden
Experience
First
Out
About
Laws
Vast
Troubling
Without
How
Coming
Causes
Cultivated
Essential
Human
Which
Human Experience
There are any number of socially relevant causes that publicly minded individuals may feel strongly about. In a democracy, it is for the government of the day to legislate laws to deal with such issues. Not for courts to issue advisories and declare criminal what may often be normal economic activity protecting livelihoods.
Sanjaya Baru
Government
Day
Democracy
Minded
Criminal
Relevant
About
Strongly
Laws
Economic
Economic Activity
Individuals
Feel
Protecting
Deal
Courts
Issue
Causes
Issues
Normal
Any
Legislate
May
Often
Declare
Livelihood
Activity
Publicly
Socially
Number
Contempt is a dangerous emotion, luring us into believing that we understand more than we do. Contempt causes us to jeer rather than speak, to poke at rather than touch.
Scott Spencer
Speak
Dangerous
Touch
Rather
More
Emotion
Poke
Contempt
Understand
Causes
Than
Us
Believing
Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences.
Sergei Lavrov
Experience
Consequences
Crisis
Recovery
Catastrophic
Causes
Historical
Either
Shows
There's no doubt that we are, by traditional automotive manufacturing standards, an automotive conglomerate. And so that causes confusion by definition.
Sergio Marchionne
Confusion
Doubt
Definition
No Doubt
Causes
Traditional
Conglomerate
Standards
Manufacturing
Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our experience arise due to causes, due to conditions coming together in a certain way.
Sharon Salzberg
Wisdom
Together
Experience
Protection
Word
Our
Way
All Things
Insight
Seeing
Arise
Buddhism
Knowing
Due
Coming
Causes
Conditions
Certain
Use
Certain Way
Deeply
Actually
Things
I've made humanitarian causes and my children much more my priority than the Hollywood scene, being liked and getting movie parts.
Sharon Stone
Made
More
Scene
Liked
Parts
Priority
Causes
Than
Getting
Being
Children
Movie
Hollywood
Much
Humanitarian
It doesn't matter if I've been wronged - I still have a responsibility to use my influence in a way that never causes harm.
Shaun King
Matter
Responsibility
Way
Never
Wronged
Still
Causes
Been
Influence
Use
Harm
As a Senator from Rhode Island, I wish that once - just once - the fossil fuel industry and their paid-for PR machine would concede that burning their product causes real harm to other people.
Sheldon Whitehouse
People
Wish
Other
Once
Machine
Would
Concede
Industry
Island
Real
Causes
Senator
Just
Burning
Rhode
Rhode Island
Fuel
Product
Fossil
Fossil Fuel
Harm
All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.
Shelley Winters
Together
Happy
Problems
Live
Marriages
Causes
Trying
Afterwards
The selfie, like all technology, causes us to reflect on our human values. This is a good thing because it challenges us to figure out what they really are.
Sherry Turkle
Good
Technology
Challenges
Values
Reflect
Our
Out
Good Thing
Like
Because
Causes
Human
Us
Really
Figure
Human Values
Thing
In a spiritual sense, a positive attitude may help you get through chemotherapy and surgery and radiation and what have you. But a positive mental attitude does not cure cancer - any more than a negative mental attitude causes cancer.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Positive
Attitude
Spiritual
You
Positive Attitude
Cancer
Negative
Sense
Mental
Mental Attitude
More
Through
Does
Chemotherapy
Surgery
Causes
Cure
Than
Get
Any
May
Radiation
Help
No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or by haphazard fluctuations in the chemical soup in the womb or the wiring up of the brain or the expression of the genes themselves.
Steven Pinker
People
Take
Shaped
No-One
Wiring
Individuality
Genes
Perhaps
Conception
Knows
Chemical
Causes
Soup
Brain
Womb
Up
Haphazard
After
Place
Themselves
Expression
Terrorism and extremism bear different names and labels. It uses diverse causes. But in each case, it is driven by distortion of religion and a misguided belief in its power to succeed.
Sushma Swaraj
Religion
Terrorism
Power
Extremism
Distortion
Case
Diverse
Bear
Driven
Misguided
Names
Causes
Labels
Different
Succeed
Different Names
Uses
Each
Belief
Toxicity causes nutritional deprivation - and your body then craves more and more food, trying to get what it needs.
Suzanne Somers
Food
Needs
Nutritional
More
More And More
Causes
Get
Trying
Craves
Deprivation
Then
Body
Your
Your Body
The stunning thing about the world as it is, is that we have a tremendously large problem in it: namely, one-third of all human deaths, 80-million every year from poverty-related causes, trivial diseases and so on, and stunningly, nobody is really paying attention to it.
Thomas Pogge
Problem
World
Year
Every
Tremendously
One-Third
About
Trivial
Attention
Nobody
Namely
Stunning
Causes
Deaths
Diseases
Human
Really
Paying
Large
Thing
Understanding the true causes of the Depression, as well as the real economic record of the United States in the 1930s, is an essential ingredient in anyone's economic and historical education.
Thomas Woods
Education
Depression
Understanding
States
Record
Economic
True
Well
Real
Causes
Historical
Essential
Anyone
Ingredient
United
United States
The way everyone in London is right up against each other makes it very real to you growing up, the fact that people have different lives to you. And that causes problems; of course it does.
Tinie Tempah
You
People
Problems
Other
Everyone
Way
London
Fact
Course
Makes
Does
Real
Causes
Up
Very
Different
Against
Each
Growing
Growing Up
Lives
Right
Al is, and always has been, the person who has been the candidate - the elected official. And he is the one who makes policy. As his wife, I have the wonderful opportunity to advocate for causes that I am passionate about, and I'm thankful for that.
Tipper Gore
Thankful
Wonderful
Opportunity
Wife
Has-Been
About
He
Policy
Makes
Advocate
Always
Am
Passionate
Causes
Been
His
Person
Official
Candidate
Elected
Who
Al
The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.
Tom DeLay
Youth
Parents
Control
Birth
Birth Control
Kids
Evolution
Take
Put
Schools
Mothers
Pills
Causes
Working
Teaching
Who
Violence
Something that comes along with age causes you to simmer a bit.
Tommy Morrison
You
Age
Bit
Something
Simmer
Along
Causes
Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
Tony Blair
Today
Law
Crime
Tough
Party
Law And Order
Causes
Labour
Order
Britain
As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it.
Tony Campolo
Depression
Church
Face
Consider
Ways
Those
Responsible
Must
Causes
Might
Us
Creating
What does the future look like if the heads of society ask our young people to risk their lives for questionable causes? I think it looks rather bleak.
Tracy Chapman
Future
People
Young
Think
Society
Our
Rather
Risk
Bleak
Heads
Like
Look
Looks
Does
Causes
Questionable
Young People
Ask
Lives
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