Reason Quotes
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I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason.
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I used to think things were the way they are for a reason, that there was some hidden meaning. I used to think that this meaning governed the way the world was. But it's an illusion to think that there are good and bad reasons. Grammar is a lie to make us think that what we say is connected by a logic that you'll find if you study it, a lie that gone on for centuries. Because I now know that life just lurches between stability and instability and doesn't obey any law.
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The reason the FISA standard is constitutional is that the government is supposed to use FISA surveillance not for criminal investigations but for counterintelligence probes pursued under the president's authority to conduct foreign policy.
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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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Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.
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This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.
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Part of me would love to be mayor for the simple reason that I love my city.
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So I try not to look too far into the future because I think that everything happens and will happen for a reason.
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The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.
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My dad worked two jobs his whole life, and so I told him he's the reason I have 20 jobs.
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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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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
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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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At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.
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Conscious auto-suggestion, made with confidence, faith, and perseverance realizes itself automatically, in all matters within reason.
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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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Masses of Iraqis keep on dying for no palpably tangible reason that they can so much as identify to themselves, far less anyone else. Why?
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The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.
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The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
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There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.
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The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful.
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I hate complaining about paparazzi, I hate complaining about being recognised, because if I ultimately didn't want to be an actor or in the public eye, I would quit doing what I do. That's not the reason I do it, but I love the work so much that it's worth it.
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year.
