Reason Quotes
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There seemed to be nothing in Mao that might be called religious feeling; his judgments were reached, I believe, on the basis of reason and necessity. Because of this I think he has probably on the whole been a moderating influence in the Communist movement where life and death are concerned.
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We have reason to feel good, but it's also a threat to feel too good and I will pay attention that that doesn't happen.
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The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.
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When it is not possible to reason with holy warriors, it is necessary to immobilize them or crush them.
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War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities.
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One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
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Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in.
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One reason which I find particularly fascinating about Israel is this. There is no such thing as a Jewish civilization. There is a Jewish culture, a Jewish religion, but there is no such thing as a Jewish civilization. The Jews were a component basically of two civilizations. In the Western world, we talk about the Judeo-Christian tradition and you talk about the Judeo-Islamic tradition because there were large and important Jewish communities living in the lands of Islam.
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A guitar is a piece of wood, and if this piece is resonating in a period of 40 or 60 years, it kind of gets to know what it is after awhile... the reason violinists play violins that are hundreds of years old. The wood learns to sing.
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Love doesn't need a reason. Hate needs a reason.
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War makes extremely heavy demands on the soldier's strength and nerves. For this reason, make heavy demands on your men in peacetime exercises.
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The main reason guys will never admit to having even the teeniest clue about what women really want is because if they did, they'd have to do something about it.
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In my life I've easily lost 500 pounds but for some reason they keep finding me.
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Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth to the child, but she is there to help during its delivery. Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to 'give birth' to correct insight, since real understanding must come from within. . . . Everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.
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Presley brought an excitement to singing, in part because rock and roll was greeted as his invention, but for other reasons not so widely reflected on: Elvis Presley had the most beautiful singing voice of any human being on earth.
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I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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We just laid down on the bed together with Reese Witherspoon at the Four Seasons, and she's like, "What are people going to think of Legally Blonde? They're just going to think I'm some ditz." I'm like, "No. They're going to love you." And they do, for good reason. She was amazing!
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Sometimes, however, there is more than hope. Sometimes there is reason.
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Things happen. Life happens. Sometimes we draw things to us. Maybe it’s fate. I can’t tell you, Matthew. But it seems that for whatever reason, this one’s yours.
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All we would need to do would be to read the Bible and accept what it says as what really happened. That, of course, is the approach to the Bible that fundamentalists take. And that’s one reason why you will not find fundamentalists at the forefront of critical scholarship.
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The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven't given them anything else to care about.
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One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with.
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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.
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I don't think my father noticed that he had daughters. I think, you know, part of the damage of the childhood was, I simply don't think they were acknowledged as human beings at all. Or - you know, one of the reasons I became a cook later on in my life was, I was not allowed to cook an egg.
