Reason Quotes
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One of the reasons I'm able to write books and still carry on with other work is that I do my best writing between 5am and midday.
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Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong.
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Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.
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The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.
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The reason why life may be judged to be trivial although at certain moments it seems to us so beautiful is that we form our judgment, ordinarily, not on the evidence of life itself but of those quite different images which preserve nothing of life-and therefore we judge it disparagingly.
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There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.
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I can't give other people what I've not experienced to some extent myself. It sharpens your game and also, like any athlete, you're more fit because you have to be. You're getting ready because you have a reason to.
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The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.
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Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything.
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Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation marks is that most so-called theory is only a collection of examples from master practice.
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Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily things of existence; our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen.
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I don't mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is no reason for the State to pay for them.
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The best reason to take your time is that this time is the only time you'll ever have.
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She was praying for us -- everybody was praying for us. That's another reason I knew we were safe.
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Everything comes down to this: the reason for every word I have written and every word I will write. I am recounting my life for you so that you may know this secret without the pain of discovering it: We are unhappy because we think that love is something we require from someone else. Our salvation depends on a simple gesture that is nonetheless the most difficult act we can perform: We must give away the thing we most long for. Not to receive but to give.
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For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.
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It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.
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I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always been for the same reason: I said yes when I meant no.
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For me, the moment the mic is on and it's rolling, it's impossible to vocally relax for some reason. But one day, I'm going to be able to sing the way I sang when I was a little kid, completely open and free. That's, I think, the one thing that's changed: Growing older, I'm not ashamed to hear my voice.
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When you add impediments to voting for no reason, it tends to discriminate against the poor and minorities.
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The question of meaning goes all the way down: if human life as a whole is meaningless, so is everything that occurs or belongs within it. Since that's not a thought it is easy to live with, there is good reason to search for life's meaning.
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She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.
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There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.
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I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.
