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"The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."

"Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason."

"Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason."

"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."

"The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free."

"That is one reason so many of the Japanese pictures are not good, they cannot spare all the footage necessary for that bow, which is repeated over and over again."

"Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one thing that's all of those combined."
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"If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are."

"The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions."

"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."

"In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state."

"There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion."
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