"Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!"
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"Maybe they notice me wincing whenever I hear them say it, but I don't know: there are all sorts of reasons I could be wincing. Life is a wince-a-thon."
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"At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else."
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"If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed."
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"The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason."
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"When I was ten years old I wanted to be a taxidermist for some reason, don't ask me why."
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"Subconscious is motivated by emotion, right? Not reason."
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"I don't care anything about reasons, but I know what I like."
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"There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane."
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"Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?"
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"In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere."
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"We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal."
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"Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden."
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"To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason."
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"Childhood is the sleep of reason. [Fr., L'enfance est le sommeil de la raison.]"
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"Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident"
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"It is a woman's reason to say I will do such a thing because I will."
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"Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another."
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"It's my job to be better than the rest, and that's enough reason to go for me. It's my job to be better than the rest, and that makes the day for me."
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"It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals."
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