"Because people are more than emotions. People have thoughts and reasons for doing things."
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"Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God."
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"Enthusiasm is the fever of reason."
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"Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used."
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"I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable."
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"We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide."
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"The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered."
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"Oh, there's plenty of reasons. I just don't know which one."
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"I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living."
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"Art is right reason in the doing of work."
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"Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God."
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"I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen by the people directly."
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"Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us."
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"If you're aware when it's going on, you can deal with it and change it. If you're not aware of it, you'll be mystified at the states that come and go seemingly without reason."
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"To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right."
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"I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then."
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"Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the Department of Mathematics they put it in books."
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"I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality."
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"I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy."
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"We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear."
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