"It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason."
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"The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded."
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"A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty"
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"There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons."
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"I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value."
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"Stacking shelves in a supermarket. The reason I didn't like it is because I'm very clumsy. We had a floor polisher you'd push up and down the aisles, and klutz me would always knock the bottles over in the drinks aisle. Unsurprisingly I got fired."
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"I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed - for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist."
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"The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me how to make my music."
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"Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings."
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"It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger."
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"We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others."
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"Art does not tolerate reason."
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"The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits."
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"He that cannot reason is a fool."
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"I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows."
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"Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole."
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"For some reason I've always had an irrational love for New York. There's no reason that you would necessarily like it on paper. It's very expensive."
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"It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any."
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"If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy."
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"Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently."
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