Reason Quotes
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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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It is our responsibility to learn how to speak to an audience that is less informed about music, to give it a reason to want to come and see us instead of going to the movies.
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I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.
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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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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
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The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
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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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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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Nothing happens without a reason.
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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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At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.
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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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Law is mind without 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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Universal is known according to reason, but that which is particular, according to sense...
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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 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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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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It is impossible to get anywhere without sinning against reason.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.
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A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.
