"The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing."
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"A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself."
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"Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors."
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"The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all."
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"To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true."
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"Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits."
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"Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it"
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"Reason is intuition's servant."
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"The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice."
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"...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason."
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"It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices."
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"It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons."
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"I've always been connected to football, but for some reason, there's never been a connection."
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"And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions."
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"Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate."
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"I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything."
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"I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason."
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"The only reason to build a website is to change someone. If you can't tell me the change and you can't tell me the someone, then you're wasting your time."
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"A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you."
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"Everybody does what they want to do for their own specific reasons."
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