Noel Whitcomb Quotes
I am not one of the people who believe that the main reason why a chap becomes a bookmaker is because he is too scared to steal and too heavy to become a jockey.
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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.
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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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The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same 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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
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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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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.
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Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.
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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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You're the reason our kids are ugly.
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Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve. There's no reason why these problems shouldn't be easy, and yet they turn out to be extremely intricate. Fermat's Last Theorem is the most beautiful example of this.
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Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.
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The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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When you left this one theater in Norfolk, the actors had to walk through the lobby to get out to the street. People would see you and say nice things, tell you that you were good. So, pretty soon I'm pretending to forget things backstage, going through the lobby a couple of times.
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Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.
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Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)
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I am not one of the people who believe that the main reason why a chap becomes a bookmaker is because he is too scared to steal and too heavy to become a jockey.
