Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter XIV, When The Money Stopped, p. 192
“[…] the uncontrolled causes which may influence the result are always strictly innumerable.”
The Design of Experiments (section II.9, eighth edition, 1971, Hafner Publishing Company, New York) as quoted by George Casella in Statistical Design (p. 18, 2008, Springer).
Since 1960s
“Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity and always its result.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Profit is not a cause but a result”
Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 1, p. 71
Source: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XXII, Section 4, p. 263 (1985)
“In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.”
Source: The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912), Ch. V : Religion's Dilemma in Respect to Theory, p. 58.
Source: Nationalism and Culture (1937), Ch. 1 "The Insufficiency of Economic Materialism"
Context: No thinking man in this day can fail to recognise that one cannot properly evaluate an historical period without considering economic conditions. But much more one-sided is the view which maintains that all history is merely the result of economic conditions, under whose influence all other life phenomena have received form and imprint.
There are thousands of events in history which cannot be explained by purely economic reasons, or by them alone. It is quite possible to bring everything within the terms of a definite scheme, but the result is usually not worth the effort. There is scarcely an historical event to whose shaping economic causes have not contributed, but economic forces are not the only motive powers which have set everything else in motion. All social phenomena are the result of a series of various causes, in most cases so inwardly related that it is quite impossible clearly to separate one from the other. We are always dealing with the interplay of various causes which, as a rule, can be clearly recognised but cannot be calculated according to scientific methods.
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 99
“In a good cause hypocrisy becomes a virtue.”
Source: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 1, Priscus to Libanius, Antioch June 380
