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"Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect."

"Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade..."

"Act and opportunities will manifest. There is no such thing as luck. There is only causality. Are you strong enough to cause something to happen – that’s the question."

"There are no telegraphs on Tralfamadore. But you're right: each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent message-- describing a situation, a scene. We Tralfamadorians read them all at once, not one after t..."

"Natural Sciences are all about fascinating causality."

"Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations..."

"Conspiracy theory, like causality, works fantastically well as an explanatory model but only if you use it backwards. The fact that we cannot predict much about tomorrow strongly indicates that most o..."

"Spinoza was the supreme rationalist. He saw an endless stream of causality in the world. For him there is no such entity as will or will power. Nothing happens capriciously. Everything is caused by so..."

"Belief in the causal nexus is superstition."

"To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves."