"To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title."
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"An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before."
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"The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments."
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"Faith is stronger than so-called reality."
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"Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach."
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"The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes."
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"It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge."
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"Don't expect me to cry for the wrong reasons."
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"The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide."
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"I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . ."
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"Reason is emotion for the sexless."
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"Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods."
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"So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living."
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"Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated."
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"Reason speaks and feeling bites"
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"The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous."
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"It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason!"
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"If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work."
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"Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence"
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"If there's one thing worse than being really angry for no reason, it's suddenly remembering the reason."
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