"for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity."
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"Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another."
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"Reason is immortal, all else mortal."
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"A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations."
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"Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity."
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"An established government has an infinite advantage, by that very circumstance of its being established--the bulk of mankind being governed by authority, not reason, and never attributing authority to anything that has not the recommendation of antiquity."
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"The Voice of Reason is in us all...and everyone can recognize it because it makes sense and everyone benefits from it equally."
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"God destines us for an end beyond the grasp of reason."
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"Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason."
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"The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters."
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"Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can't stand it for some reason."
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"The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus's tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in."
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"Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun."
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"Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason."
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"Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one."
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"The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life."
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"Humiliate the reason and distort the soul."
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"Reason deceives us; conscience, never."
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"Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare various decisions."
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"The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor."
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