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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A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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That's the reason I'm not the one that's dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful.
Bill Murray
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If sub specie aeternitatis from eternity's point of view there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair.
Thomas Nagel
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I very much enjoy things like '24,' although I suspect that's run its course.
Will Tudor
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I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn't undo the fact that I'd had the thought in the first place.
Scarlett Thomas
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
Sophocles