"Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite."
— Aristotle

January 1, 1970

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Variant: All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.