"That's the reason I'm not the one that's dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful."
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"Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That's one of the reasons I beat him - because I respected him."
"It is impossible to get anywhere without sinning against reason."
"Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?"
"Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received."
"People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. they did not give or ask for reasons."
"If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason."
"The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is not the moment for radical solutions, what is?"
"... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing."
"Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts."
"That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think ."
"The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not the highest Reason, but higher than reason; not the highest Goodness, but higher than goodness."
"Every time you change your orders without obvious reason, you weaken your authority."
"On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable."
"The reason I became successful is because I touched. I touched my community."
"Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger."
"The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason."
"We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted."
"Few people ever kill for the right reasons, June. Most do it for the wrong reasons. I just hope you never have to be in either category."
"Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked."