Sophocles Quotes
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We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.
Nathaniel Smith
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
Wallace Stevens
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I don't do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
Usain Bolt
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
D. B. Weiss
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
Quintilian
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
Gavin Newsom
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After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
Adam Cohen
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My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.
Oscar Isaac
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The reason why nothing sticks to Trump - or very little sticks to Trump - is that he created this brand idea that has to do with being the guy who gets away from it.
Naomi Klein
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The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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The gods behold all righteous actions.
Ovid
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Immanuel Kant
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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
Walter Benjamin
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No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.
Zooey Deschanel
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The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
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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.
Aaron Sorkin
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There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.
Zac Posen
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Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
Henry Ward Beecher
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And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and manifest reason for it; but above all he must abstain from taking the property of others, for men forget more easily the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer.
Hermann von Helmholtz
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
William Faulkner
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
Sophocles