"Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after."
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"Part of the reason we're all committed to coordinated stimulus is we want to stimulate the global economy. We're in a global economy, not just our national economies.p"
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"If you are a big company, a big website, and lots of users come to your website, you will have attacks, and you have to deal with that. It just cannot be a reason to take actions to exit certain markets."
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"People always clap for the wrong reasons."
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"I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain."
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"It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned."
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"I learned that there's no reason why people decide they like music when they do."
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"When there is hope in the future, there is power in the present, and since hope is the foundational quality of all change, there is considerable reason to be excited."
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"Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside."
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"The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities."
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"Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason."
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"He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected."
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"Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason's intentions."
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"We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason."
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"Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason."
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"Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet. Habit is stronger than reason."
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"Our minds are specifically adapted to developing certain theories, and we have a science if the theories that are available to our minds happen to be close to true. Well, there is no particular reason to suppose that the intersection of true theories and theories that are accessible to the mind is very large. It may not be very large."
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"Never settle. There is no reason to rush."
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"An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations."
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"You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place."
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