"Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal."
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"Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed"
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"Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer."
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"What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House."
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"Indeed, it would be great if we could all be liberated through reason, but I think it only gets us part of the way. After all, someone may have a very logical view, but for other reasons we may still fail to hear what that person says, or we may turn their words around so that they are understood to say the opposite. The task is really to find ways of addressing deep-seated forms of fear and aggression that make it possible to hold to manifestly inconsistent views without quite acknowledging them."
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"Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts."
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"Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right."
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"I keep telling Ron Lorman and them in the control room, "It's my band! The reason I have a band is because I can't stand for somebody to tell me what to do.""
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"But it is not reason that governs love."
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"You are pooped and demoralised,” read Dwayne. “Why wouldn’t you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable."
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"There are plenty of good reasons for fighting."
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"At the end of reasons comes persuasion."
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"As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all."
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"A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are."
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"Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder."
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"Poems have always been a place for questions for me. Not answers. And I have a lot of questions these days. One of the reasons I've felt so connected to poetry throughout the years is because it's the only art form that has breath built into it. And I need that breath now. I need that breath so much. So, yes, it is a refuge for me. Absolutely."
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"To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend."
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"There is never a right or wrong time to have kids; it happens for whatever reason, but you can have this paranoia: 'will I be able to do this, I'm not sure if I'm ready to have kids?'"
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"One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do."
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"Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery."
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