Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason."
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Kevin Gates
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"Bein logical gave me a reason to doubt"
Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall."
Anne Lamott
Author, Essayist
"... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]"
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"Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach."
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"They say people in your life are seasons and anything that happens is for a reason."
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"You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them."
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"Maybe this one moment, with this one person, is the very reason we’re here on Earth at this time."
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"The reason there are so many stupid people is because it's illegal to kill them."
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"Be prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you."
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"If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them."
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"Everything in life got its purpose. Find its reason in every season."
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"Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference."
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"Experience must be our only guide. Reason may mislead us."
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"I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else."
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"All human beings have all of the intelligences. But we differ, for both genetic and experiential reasons, in our profile of intelligences at any moment."
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"There is no reason to hide and every reason to flaunt."
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"I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results. The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit."
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"Faith consists in believing what reason cannot."
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"A good mustache makes a man for many reasons."
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"Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable."
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"Nothing happens without a reason."
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"If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you."
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"There is nothing higher than reason."
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