Jostein Gaarder Quotes
Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason.
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Sometimes friends move apart from each other for whatever reason.
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Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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The Italians must allow us to slaughter the Momands, because, if we do not kill the warlike hillmen, they will kill us. And we must allow the Italians to slaughter the Danakils for the same reason.
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The number of people who said that it made a difference to them that I'm out is the reason that I'm out. There are people who devote their lives to taking away the rights of gays and lesbians, and I think that visibility is very important. I'm trying to encourage more people to come out, and show everyone who they are, because it's harder to take away the rights of a human being. And this is a miracle state, because we can get married. And I think that these people working to take away our rights are going to lose, because of this generation.
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Be brave and fearless to know that even if you do make a wrong decision, you're making it for a good reason.
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People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.
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I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.
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I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.
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Maintaining control indefinitely over millions of Palestinians will inevitably lead to a demographic nightmare and cannot be sustained if Israel is to remain true to its founding principles.
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You know you can't satisfy anybody.
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There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair. Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.
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Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.
