"Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them."
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"Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted."
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"Man governs himself more by impulse than reason"
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"Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it."
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"The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that."
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"Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists"
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"The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition."
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"Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real."
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"We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason."
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"Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason."
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"Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable."
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"Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances."
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"The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool."
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"The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it."
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"Who Killed Davey Moore? Why and what's the reason for?"
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"Here everybody has a neighbor Everybody has a friend Everybody has a reason to begin again."
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"Anything you think you know about about God, that you can't find in the person of Jesus, you have reason to question."
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"There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence."
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"People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it."
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"I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it. I think that they thought I could read music, but I can't. I would just listen. It was really me just mimicking. That's one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to do that anymore."
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