"The law is reason unaffected by desire."
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"Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason."
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"The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire."
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"Love has reasons that reason knows not."
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"There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman."
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"Once the people begin to reason, all is lost"
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"Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth."
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"The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life."
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"All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy"
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"All our knowledge begins with the senses..."
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"I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to."
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"Faith is not reason's labour, but repose."
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"He is a true fugitive who flies from reason."
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"You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again."
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"I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love."
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"A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason"
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"Take a look at the bombing of Serbia in 1999. The US was quite open about the reasons for the bombing. A main reason was to preserve stability and credibility. Serbia was interfering with stability, meaning that it was the one part of the Balkans that was not integrated into the Western-dominated (mostly US-dominated) system."
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"It's not a pretty picture, but there are reasons for hope."
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"In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity."
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"Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty."
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