Reason Quotes
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Democracy begins as an act of imagination about people. For this reason democracy is a doctrine of social criticism.
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Faith does not contradict reason. Faith exceeds reason.
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We have reason to believe that when, during the crusades, Europe at last began to establish hospitals, they were inspired by the Arabs of near East....The first hospital in Paris, Les Quinze-vingt, was founded by Louis IX after his return from the crusade 1254-1260.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Why would some all powerful being create creatures capable of reason and then demand that they act in a manner contrary to their creation?
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Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
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Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.
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Just watching a girl can give me the best reason to smile. Girls are something very special and you got to treat them that way. That's why I always say don't stare right at a chick. She'll begin to fidget, wondering if her hair's messed up or if her make-up is smeared. It's kind of like going to an art gallery to see beautiful paintings. If you look at a painting just the right way, you get the most out of it!
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.
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Never take no personally. Sometimes people tell you no for a reason that has nothing to do with you. You must keep going.
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Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession, and when the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish. That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free.
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The trumpet player, Ronnie Hughes, has still got his chops today but for some strange reason the culture doesn't call him because he's 83-years-old. And these people are in their 70s and 80s and 90s and came with such verve every day and would still be shooting these 10 and 12 hour days. So, that in itself made this an extraordinarily special occasion for all of us. It wasn't a job for the crew after a few days, it took on another tone.
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What we were doing at the end of the game, we've never done before. The other side of it is, if we don't do it, for instance when we did take a knee against Texas Tech, does that then come back and haunt you? Is that the reason that maybe kept you out of something, and how do you live with that as well? Its really a rotten position to play in.
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There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.
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What you put out is what you get back, and the reason so many are so short of money is that they put little or nothing out
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I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.
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Reason is a passion; an instinct, a drive.
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For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.
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You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.
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God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.
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The only reason people are saying I'm the number-one player is because I'm with the number-one team.
