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

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"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

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"Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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"Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believed in ice -- i.e., it was something he really needed, but this just wasn't the world for it."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable."

Sam Harris, American Author

Reason, Progress, History, Humanity

"Religion is a distraction from true education."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

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"The power of reason is thought small in these days, but I remain an unrepentant rationalist. Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife. Therefore every orgy of unreason in the end strengthens the friends of reason, and shows afresh that they are the only true friends of humanity."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Reason, Truth, Hope, Conflict

"It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life."

Martin Luther, German Leader

Reason, Wisdom, Power, Glory

"Man's life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic, but the life of a thinking being-not life by means of force or fraud, but life by means of achievement-not survival at any price, since there's only one price that pays for man's survival: reason."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."

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