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"Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety."
Moliere
"Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety."
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"There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect."
Ann Beattie
"There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect."
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"No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct."
Shakti Gawain
"No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct."
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"Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint."
Val Kilmer
"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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"Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't lose your momentum, and there's one more important reason I slide headfirst, it gets my picture in the paper."
Pete Rose
"Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't lose your momentum, and there's one more important reason I slide headfirst, it gets my picture in the paper."
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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!"
Jeff Smith
"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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"For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me."
Alison Bechdel
"For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me."
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"The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it."
Daniel Keys Moran
"The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it."
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"When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics."
Karl Schlegel
"When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics."
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"I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going."
Courtney Love
"I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going."
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"But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically."
Edie Brickell
"But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically."
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"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone."
Ayn Rand
"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone."
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"Obviously it's critical that the three cars are able to contribute to the program. I think that certainly has given much of the reason as to why we did so well at Indy over the last several years."
Bobby Rahal
"Obviously it's critical that the three cars are able to contribute to the program. I think that certainly has given much of the reason as to why we did so well at Indy over the last several years."
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"There's no reason you should write any novel quickly."
John Irving
"There's no reason you should write any novel quickly."
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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."
Theodore Sturgeon
"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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"The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here."
Kyle Chandler
"The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here."
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"The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen."
Bill Joy
"The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen."
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"They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it."
Thomas Keller
"They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it."
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"I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely."
Ava Gardner
"I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely."
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"There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat."
Aleksandr Lebed
"There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat."
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"There's no reason the Rangers can't get to the top."
Tom Hicks
"There's no reason the Rangers can't get to the top."
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"I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason."
Tracey Gold
"I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason."
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"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."
Carl Jung
"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."
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"Nobody does anything for one reason."
Russell Banks
"Nobody does anything for one reason."
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"You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to."
Robert H. Schuller
"You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to."
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"One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages."
Guru Nanak
"One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages."
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"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."
C. S. Lewis
"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."
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"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."
Sessue Hayakawa
"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."
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"One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need."
Piers Anthony
"One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need."
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"Do you have to have a reason for loving?"
Brigitte Bardot
"Do you have to have a reason for loving?"
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"Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts."
Brooks Robinson
"Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts."
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"The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to."
Sparky Anderson
"The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to."
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"Vanity is the quicksand of reason."
George Sand
"Vanity is the quicksand of reason."
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"Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies."
Johann G. Hamann
"Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies."
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"If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose."
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
"If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose."
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"That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done."
David Selby
"That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done."
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"I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason."
Juvenal
"I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason."
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"I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything."
John Elway
"I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything."
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"As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them."
Debbie Allen
"As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them."
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"And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously."
Minoru Yamasaki
"And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously."
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"I felt uneasy, but sometimes, like I said before, I believed in Col. North and there was a very solid and very valid reason that he must have been doing this."
Fawn Hall
"I felt uneasy, but sometimes, like I said before, I believed in Col. North and there was a very solid and very valid reason that he must have been doing this."
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"Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness."
Giacomo Casanova
"Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness."
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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."
Earl Weaver
"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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"But if I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just haven't found the reason that this all happened yet."
Jerry Lawler
"But if I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just haven't found the reason that this all happened yet."
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"That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world."
Jeff Ament
"That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world."
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"Whiskey - I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it."
Robert E. Lee
"Whiskey - I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it."
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"I have never sought the reason why I write."
Nathalie Sarraute
"I have never sought the reason why I write."
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"I'm not competing in Iowa for a reason."
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
"I'm not competing in Iowa for a reason."
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"I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well."
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"I think things happened the way they did for a reason."
Aaron Neville
"I think things happened the way they did for a reason."
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