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Causes

Determinant, reason; result, outcome, aftermath, corollary

QUOTES

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
 Arthur Miller
 1958

The greatest griefs are those we caused ourselves.
 Sophocles
 -460

He who sleeps with a dog will wake up with fleas.
 anonymous
 

For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.
 Benjamin Franklin
 

Happy the man who could search out the causes of things.
 Virgil
 -40

One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner.
 John Bunyan
 Pilgrim's Progress, 1684

Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
 Bible
 Galatians,

See Also

References

History
  • The Domino Principle, Dwight Eisenhower 1954

    Arts & Science

  • Chemical reactions
  • Geometric proofs
  • drug trials

    Literature

  • Conan Doyle: the Sherlock Homes books
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky; Crime and Punishment




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