"Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not."
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"Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. Nothing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all."
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"The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life."
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"The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration."
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"Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons."
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"Eyesight should learn from reason."
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"Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off."
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"Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason."
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"Reason gains all people by compelling none."
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"It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth."
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"In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason."
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"The things I can't change are the reasons you'll love me"
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"There is no greater monster than reason."
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"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."
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"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, and naturally loves itself; and it gives itself to one or the other, and hardens itself against one or the other, as it chooses...it is the heart that feels God, not the reason; this is faith."
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"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."
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"She's a walkin', talkin' reason to live."
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"Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons."
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"Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art."
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"Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent."
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