Coleman Barks Quotes
A hand shifts our birdcages around. Some are brought closer. Some move apart. Do not try to reason it out. Be conscious of who draws you and who not.
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We approach closer and closer to socialism.
B. Carroll Reece
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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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A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.
Jack Hanna
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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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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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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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 third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
Galileo Galilei
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Walter Scott
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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.
Randy Pausch
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It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.
Edmund Husserl
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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.
Immanuel Kant
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I come here to be coach of Manchester City and train these players. That's the reason I am here.
Pep Guardiola
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.
George Bernard Shaw
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The number of people who said that it made a difference to them that I'm out is the reason that I'm out. There are people who devote their lives to taking away the rights of gays and lesbians, and I think that visibility is very important. I'm trying to encourage more people to come out, and show everyone who they are, because it's harder to take away the rights of a human being. And this is a miracle state, because we can get married. And I think that these people working to take away our rights are going to lose, because of this generation.
Anthony Rapp
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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.
Adele
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Never try to reason with a man who can see the blade swinging for his head.
Algis Budrys
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This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
Lord Byron
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Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
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Girls do what their mothers tell them. Ladies do what society tells them. Women make up their own minds.
Karen Kijewski
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
Moliere
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A hand shifts our birdcages around. Some are brought closer. Some move apart. Do not try to reason it out. Be conscious of who draws you and who not.
Coleman Barks