Abraham Kaplan Quotes
If we can predict successfully on the basis of a certain explanation, we have good reason, and perhaps the best of reason, for accepting the explanation.
Quotes to Explore
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We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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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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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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There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.
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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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Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.
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Sometimes friends move apart from each other for whatever reason.
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No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.
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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
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My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.
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For it is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she must incline.
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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
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I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.
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I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.
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There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.
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I'd say the modern world has moved yet further away from me, and I don't think whether or not I am incarcerated has had much to say in this context. Living with your family changes you, for the better, and that would be the reason for the accelerated growth in the post-prison period, so to say.
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The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world.
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Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the Department of Mathematics they put it in books.
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...will you be so kind as to provide me with a few places where I might look for a murderer?" "The mirror's a great place to start.
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There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world.
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If we can predict successfully on the basis of a certain explanation, we have good reason, and perhaps the best of reason, for accepting the explanation.
