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"As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society."

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You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

— Morris West

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