"Docility is the observable half of reason."
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"To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason."
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"To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason."
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"Reason is the slave of passion."
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"This then is the age of reason."
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"The reason most people don’t accomplish much is because they don’t want much."
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"Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey."
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"You would be better off having nobody than the wrong somebody. (On marrying for the wrong reasons.)"
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"There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together."
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"Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant."
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"so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it."
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"No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad."
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"I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it."
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"Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being."
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"Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined"
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"Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason."
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"We must never get into the habit of being preoccupied with the future. There is no reason to do so. God is there."
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"love is a deeper season than reason; my sweet one"
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"He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most."
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"I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier."
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