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Reason Quotes
"All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation."
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"The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing."
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"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."
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"I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept."
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"A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason."
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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 main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it."
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"Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason."
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"For some reason, it popped into my head the notion that a lot of the Next Generation cast in the long run of that show managed to step behind the camera."
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"I'm hyperactive, and I went in the studio and I would just start making records, for no reason."
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"No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs."
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"There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience."
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"For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating."
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"Reason can be used only when looking critically back."
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"I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it."
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"Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?"
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"Nourish your reasoning skills my friend, they are the most effective tool you can ever have in the path of progress."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
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"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."
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"Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons,and to make weapons - a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and we have comes from a single attribute of man -the function of his reasoning mind."
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"If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason."
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"The only reason to invest in the market is because you think you know something others don't."
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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."
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"Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man."
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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."
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"So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do."
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"The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there, And warmly debated the matter; The Orthodox said that it came from the air, And the Heretics said from the platter. They argued it long and they argued it strong, And I hear they are arguing now; But of all the choice spirits who lived in the cheese, Not one of them thought of a cow."
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"Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions."
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"Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith."
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"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."
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"Religion is a distraction from true education."
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"When everybody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!"
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"If a thing which is believed by billions is against the reason and not supported by the science, it is a great honour not to be amongst those billions!"
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