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"Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product."
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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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"Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom."
"We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information."
"We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things."
"I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation."
"It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world."
"Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?"
"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded."
"This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects."
"We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium."
"The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion."
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