Reason Quotes
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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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Real optimism has reason to complain but prefers to smile.
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The great temptation of Big Data is that we can stop worrying about comprehension and focus on preventive action instead. Instead of wasting precious public resources on understanding the 'why' - i.e., exploring the reasons as to why terrorists become terrorists - one can focus on predicting the 'when' so that a timely intervention could be made.
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Unless we have good reason to think otherwise, it seems that our best guide to the future is a mirror image of the past. The nearest thing to clairvoyance is to assume that history repeats itself — backward.
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Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.
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A marriage, she thought, had to have a reason for being.
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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.
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Even if you are angry and you have reason to be angry, that doesn't give you license to be cruel. We have to take responsibility for ourselves and the way we act.
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Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
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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.
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We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.
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I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
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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.
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Reason and memory are nearly always at odds.
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All Christian churches in China practice some form of healing, including Three-Self churches. In fact, according to some surveys, 90% of new believers cite healing as a reason for their conversion. This is especially true in the countryside where medical facilities are often inadequate or non-existent.
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Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.
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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.
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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.
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The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.
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The reason why we love America so much is America is the only place you can actually come in and wave your flag.
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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.
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Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.
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Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.
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There is a reason and not a reason for everything.
