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Reason Quotes
"The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt."
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"For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy."
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"Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety."
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"As for sacred polyphony, there is no reason to be afraid of it."
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"I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, -- blown and flared by passion's storm, -- and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains."
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"I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply."
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"Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!"
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"But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes."
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"The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself."
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"I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it."
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"The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you."
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"I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason."
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"I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well."
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"If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist."
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"The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out."
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"It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason."
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"This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason."
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"I'm not competing in Iowa for a reason."
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"I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything."
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"I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going."
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"That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world."
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"There is no good reason for our cattle producers to have such limited market access. Our beef is the best in the world, and we need to be allowed to reach global markets."
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"I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason."
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"My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself."
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"I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of."
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"Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent."
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"Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies."
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"The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason."
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"You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way."
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"I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say."
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"It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason."
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"The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move."
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"Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching."
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"The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to."
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"The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio."
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"You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it."
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"But I don't think there's any reason to get married again, especially after what I've been through."
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