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Emily Barton Author
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"Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be producing every minute of every day."

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Ester Dean Songwriter, Singer
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"I'm more than a songwriter. I'm a creative person. Some people you just always see. I won't allow you to see me unless it makes sense. There's a reason to see me."

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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
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"Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried."

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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
Reason

"What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love."

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Dana Gould Comedian
Reason

"I used to fear living a life untouched by God, but now, for some reason I've gone back to being afraid of cement mixers."

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
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"So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do."

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David Hume Philosopher, Historian
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"Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity."

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David Hume Philosopher, Historian
Reason

"of the world and drudgery of business , seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence."

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David Hume Philosopher, Historian
Reason

"Even after the observation of the frequent conjunction of objects, we have no reason to draw any inference concerning any object beyond those of which we have had experience."

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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
Reason

"Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did."

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