Reason Quotes
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Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions, and thus escape the flood. For these few gold has been the asset of last resort.
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The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures, by the ordinary currents of the winds, are intermixed, when saturated with vapour, a precipitation ensues. If the masses are under saturation, then less precipitation takes place, or none at all, according to the degree. Also, the warmer the air, the greater is the quantity of vapour precipitated in like circumstances. ... Hence the reason why rains are heavier in summer than in winter, and in warm countries than in cold.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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There's a reason I'm known - to bring people to Allah, to God.
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The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people's pockets but to put more responsibility in people's pockets.
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Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor.
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I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason – but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner.
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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.
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What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.
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I'd like to be a better writer, but I have no dreams to direct or do a screenplay. And I'd love to have a big starring role in a movie because the paycheck would be bigger. That's the only reason I do films.
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What makes photography obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is the joy that precedes pain, the moment of life just before death.
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There's only one reason we live. It's very simple. To find the creator. That's just my understanding.
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The reason that viruses are so hard to fight, the reason for example we need a flu virus every year is that they evolve very fast.
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What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.
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As a species, we tend to lie quite a bit - to ourselves and to each other. It's a primate thing. So, a reason to go into a career in science and technology, or to learn more about these subjects, is to become a more powerful person.
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I have been able to hope for the best, expect the worst, and take what comes along. If there has been one fundamental reason for my success, this is it.
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For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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For some reason, the only Swedish I know how to say is, 'There is no toilet paper.'
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Our situation is more psychological than people will admit. Black kids kill Black kids for the same reason cops do. They see no value.
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We all live such digital lives, there is no reason why we should not import this into our company.
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The only reason I'll be going is to see if I can rattle Roger Clemens.
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There is no such thing as a value-free concept of deviance; to say homosexuals are deviant because they are a statistical minority is, in practice, to stigmatize them. Nuns are rarely classed as deviants for the same reason, although if they obey their vows they clearly differ very significantly from the great majority of people.
