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Reason Quotes
"The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness."
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"We shall have to pass through many a valley, many a narrow defile. Many will grow tired on the way. Of course they will mostly be those who have no reason to do so."
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"The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man."
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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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"What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
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"If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose."
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"Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to."
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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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"For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print."
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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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"All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation."
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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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"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 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."
"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."
"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."
"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."
"Reason can be used only when looking critically back."
"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."
"Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause."
"If I had been born in the medieval times, my subjective union with God and the Universe would have evoked the rise of another Gnostic religion. But, by the grace of Mother Nature, I am born in an era of Science and Reasoning. Hence, I have dissected my own experience of Absolute Divinity as well as the experiences of all the religious giants in my works, in order to discover the physical truth underneath these apparently supernatural experiences."
"The only reason to invest in the market is because you think you know something others don't."
"Religion is a distraction from true education."
"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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