"The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies."
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"Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us."
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"It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason."
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"Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts."
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"(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds."
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"The fire is not discriminating. It burns anything in its path for whatever reason."
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"The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all."
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"This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves."
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"Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things."
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"Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part."
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"I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs."
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"Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason."
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"As far as possible, join faith to reason."
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"There's no rhyme or reason to anything that I do. It's whatever seems right at the time."
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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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"I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone."
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"We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves."
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"The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma."
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"These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable."
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"I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist."
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