"Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote, Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat? I'm fourteen years old, that is the reason, I giggle and dote in season."
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"Nobody does anything for one reason."
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"The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven't given them anything else to care about."
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"I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment."
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"At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place."
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"The reason for great distress is the body. Without it, what distress could there be?"
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"One reason people never attempt new things is their fear of failure."
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"The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer."
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"Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason."
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"The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason."
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"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable."
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"What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct."
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"Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience."
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"Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness."
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"For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason."
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"Reason should direct, and appetite obey."
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"Let reason govern desire."
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"If you, however, separate reason and faith so that it's purely a rationalistic scheme, it will end in violence. If a pure faith scheme - sometimes called the fundamentalist scheme in modern parlance - you'll end in violence too."
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"In history, we are concerned with what has been and what is; in philosophy, however, we are concerned not with what belongs exclusively to the past or to the future, but with that which is, both now and eternally in short, with reason."
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"When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing."
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