Reason Quotes
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I'm a recognizable person and some people feel the need for some reason to take me to task. You're really messing with the wrong person on that one.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Urban people, of course, are terribly scared nowadays. They may yearn for society, but it is risky to go around talking to strangers, for a lot of reasons, one being that people are so accustomed not to have many human contacts that they are afraid they may find out they really prefer life that way.
Russell Baker
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If there is a God, he or she or it or whatever higher power there is is behind us so long as we're using our music in an inspirational way. I'm here for a reason, and I was given a talent, so I'll continue to try to use it.
Bert McCracken
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But also movies seem to like me more than television, so I don't get hired a lot for TV for whatever reason.
Evan Jones
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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
Blaise Pascal
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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.
Paul Auster
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You need to quickly recognize when and why you're being spooned bullshit. That happens very often, but it happens for a reason.
David Weigel
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Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people 'feel' heard. They 'feel' that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand.
Simon Sinek
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The threat has changed from simply worrying about foreigners coming here, to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens - raised here, born here, and who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born.
Eric Holder
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And not to mean that I think I'm some special person, but I think we're all here for a very specific reason and once you figure out what that is then you're on the right track and we're all on the ride together.
Renee O'Connor
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If we exchange bombs for bread there will be less reason for wanting to kill us. I just want to have the conversation.
Tom Shadyac
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Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.
Sarah Dessen
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The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.
Thomas Sowell
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It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need.
Thomas Aquinas
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
Michael Caine
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
Thomas Sowell
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A marriage, she thought, had to have a reason for being.
Bel Kaufman
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Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.
Alfred de Musset
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And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.
Minoru Yamasaki
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Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
Thomas Aquinas
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Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.
Miguel de Unamuno
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You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
Stephen Fry
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Whoever is acquainted with the cruel injustice and unjust subordination frequently manifested in the family, whoever sees matters of lasting and supreme importance relative to the beginning and continuance of the family determined by momentary fancy or unreasoning passion, cannot but desire the construction of a social fabric in which reason may rule with perfect justice.
Charles Franklin Thwing
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There are some who wish to learn for no other reason than that they may be looked upon as learned, which is ridiculous vanity ... Others desire to learn that they may morally instruct others, that is love. And, lastly, there are some who wish to learn that they may be themselves edified; and that is prudence.
Bernard of Clairvaux