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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."

"No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."

"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."

"It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it."

"But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes."

"If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose."

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."

"Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint."

"The only reason to invest in the market is because you think you know something others don't."
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"Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city."

"Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities."

"In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended."

"Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal."

"There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues."

"It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms."

"There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution."
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