Reason Quotes
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A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.
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I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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I think the point of America, our planet, the reason we're all here, one of the best things that we can do is be concerned about something even when it doesn't concern us. That's the whole point. The fact that I've never had to use a Planned Parenthood, the fact that I've never been in need of medical services I couldn't afford or didn't have access to, doesn't mean I shouldn't be concerned about the fact that other women don't have that access.
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Lifetime is television for women. Yet for some reason, there's always a woman getting beaten on that channel. "In a Lifetime original, Meredith Baxter-Berney gets beaten with a rod. In a Lifetime original, Rod."
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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I've never been on Wall Street. And I care about Wall Street for one reason and one reason only because what happens on Wall Street matters to Main Street.
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Our aim is to appeal to reason. … Prayer is not one of our remedies; it depends on what one is praying for. We consider prayer nothing more than a fervent wish; consequently the merit and worth of a prayer depend upon what the fervent wish is.
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For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.
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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
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Nothing happens without a reason.
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No matter what the issue is, don't try to justify why you don't feel good. And don't try to justify why you should feel differently. Don't try to blame whatever it is you think the reason is that's keeping you from feeling good. All of that is wasted effort. Just try to feel better right now.
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At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.
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It is impossible to get anywhere without sinning against reason.
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Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.
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Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.
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Universal is known according to reason, but that which is particular, according to sense...
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Law is mind without reason.
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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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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
