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«The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.»
Author: Alexis Carrel
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Actors and acting,
Motivation
| Keywords:
ace, aces, asset, bonus, bonuses, common cause, common good, counterproductive, motivates, mug, mugging, mugs, The Hole
«It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.»
Author: Jacob Bigelow
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Cause and Effect, common cause, consecutive, infer, inferred, infers, Order of, relation
«The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
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assumption, common cause, correlation, errors, human error, implies, invalid, invalids, reasoning
«A person often catches a cold when a mother-in-law comes to visit. Patients mentioned mothers-in-law so often that we came to consider them a common cause of disease in the United States.»
Author: Thomas Holmes
| Keywords:
catches, catch cold, common cause, common cold, mentioned, Mother in Law, patients
«There is a hereditary selective advantage to membership in a powerful group united by devout belief and purpose. Even when individuals subordinate themselves and risk death in common cause, their genes are more likely to be transmitted to the next generation than are those of competing groups who lack equivalent resolve.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
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cause of death, common cause, competing, devout, equivalent, gene, genes, groups, hereditary, in common, membership, selective, subordinate, subordinates, subordinating, The Next Generation, transmitted
«Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse.»
«Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.»
«One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question.»
Author: William Morris
(Designer, Poet)
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abroad, a hundred thousand, common cause, fanatics, hundred thousand, in common, madman, sharing, tangible, Thousand and, thousand million, tremble, victories
«The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor»
«The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty»
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