"One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete."
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"I've for some reason or other... never met Donald Trump."
"You have to convince your players that the only reason a play failed was that they didn't execute properly."
"The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end - and that Heaven exists - is because we were created in the image of God."
"It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason."
"The war existing between the senses and reason."
"Curiosity is its own reason."
"But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain."
"Wisdom comes not from reason but from love."
"The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently."
"He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature."
"A rational process is a moral process."
"It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct."
"It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage"
"The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true."
"She wouldn't say what we both knew. 'The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true: is that it? But you know it is true now. I can almost tell you the day when you knew it is true. Why won't you say it, even to yourself?' She will not say it."
"Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift."
"Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true."
"How well he's read, to reason against reading!"
"God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity."