"Whatever the reason you're on Mars, I'm glad you're there, and I wish I was with you."
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"I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason."
"Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her."
"Force shites upon Reason's Back."
"Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason."
"Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason."
"The fact that a trick fooled you is not enough reason to perform it."
"As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them."
"For some reason cowboy sounds better than cowman."
"Find a positive lesson and positive reason for all of your personal relationships. Accentuate the blessings and knowledge gained from each."
"Real happiness is when you are happy for no reason at all; you are simply being."
"Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy."
"Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it."
"[Rose from "Fences"] couldn't just jump out there. Not just because of economic reasons but because how she was looked at in society at the time. There were a lot of factors that made you stay I guess."
"Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason."
"It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards."
"When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again."
"Scott's Eastwood movie Snowden sounds fascinating. I want to see it because it's about deserting your country ... for whatever reasons you have. Edward Snowden became famous for the wrong reasons, as Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger became famous for doing something spectacular."
"There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned."
"It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less fortunate times in which it is despised and rejected as the vain dream of men who lack the virility to kill where they cannot agree."