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Energy
In general, the word energy refers to a concept that can be paraphrased as "the potential for causing changes", and therefore one can say that energy is the cause of any change.
Note: The above text is excerpted from the Wikipedia article "Energy", which has been released under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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