"I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money."
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"Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions."
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"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal"
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"We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it."
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"The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it."
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"The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason."
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"One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next."
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"Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?"
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"Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not."
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"Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves."
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"I've been in love with you since the very beginning. You asked why there isn't anyone else in my life, and the reason... is you" - J.D."
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"I'm one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons."
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"The reason I don't want anyone to control me is not because I want to be in control. I don't want anyone to control me because I don't want anyone to control anyone."
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"Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest."
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"Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty."
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"See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be"
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"Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most."
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"There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A."
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"And these are your reasons, my lord?" "Do you think I have others?" said Lord Vetinari. "My motives, as ever, are entirely transparent." Hughnon reflected that 'entirely transparent' meant either that you could see right through them or that you couldn't see them at all."
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"Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it."
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