Richard Jefferson Quotes
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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I hate jeans for no reason.
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On election night 2000, I had never met then-Governor Bush, though I'd supported him for years. I believed he would be a strong, optimistic and gracious president with solid conservative principles and a big heart.
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
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My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.
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I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.
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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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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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It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.
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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
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We should be optimistic about the future even though we have a complicated present.
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I have an unreasonably optimistic view of the world.
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I'm all about your mindset, being focused, staying positive, being optimistic, and knowing that these are all aspects of my life that I love and enjoy.
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Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.
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The reason I’m not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my father came to America, joined the Army, fought in Vietnam - and was exposed to Agent Orange. He died a slow, horrible death. Music was my escape.
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Let optimists rule the world.
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Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.
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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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Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success - and persist when there is every reason to give up.
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I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity... (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and... afterwards... passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.
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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
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I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out.
