"Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long."
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"People do things for "their" reasons, not ours. So find their reasons."
"For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood."
"There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick."
"The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for volunteers, for the reason, felt but inarticulate, that there he found himself indubitably free."
"We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone"
"If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason."
"The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication."
"People always do the right thing for the wrong reason."
"The reason so many financial advisors are called brokers is because they are often broker than you."
"People elect the President for reasons that have nothing to do with his ability to be president."
"Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway"
"Mathematics is the music of reason."
"Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion."
"For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone."
"Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge."
"Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it."
"There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness."
"If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason."
"Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions."