"No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality."
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"The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons."
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"That's the hard part of overdosing on cherries-you have all the pits to tell you exactly how many you ate. Not more or less. Exactly. One-seed fruits really bother me for that reason. That's why I'd always rather eat raisins than prunes. Prune pits are even more imposing than cherry pits."
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"I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer."
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"You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason."
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"My wife (Maria) is the best reason to come home."
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"There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically."
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"To repeat abstractly, universally, and distinctly in concepts the whole inner nature of the world , and thus to deposit it as a reflected image in permanent concepts always ready for the faculty of reason , this and nothing else is philosophy."
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"I think knowing you're not alone is important. This generation is already better at standing up for themselves, saying, "No! You're not going to treat me like that. My standards are higher." But we can provide more education through stories. Just because someone who is older or with more authority says you have to do something, there's no reason you need to. One good thing is that there are new rules about how old you can be on set - more regulations. I think those are good."
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"When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons."
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"My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you."
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"The reason actors are assholes is because they don't eat."
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"No one is trying to be bad for the sake of being bad - there's always a reason behind it."
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"The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments."
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"A Conformist is a man who declares, "It's true because others believe it" - but an Individualist is NOT a man who declares, "It's true because I believe it." An Individual declares, "I believe it because I see in reason that it is true."
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"My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live."
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"There is only one source of authentic self-confidence: reason."
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"I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it."
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"Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason."
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"For whatever reason, I don't know why, but Cambodians learned something in their suffering and their struggle that we have lost touch with."
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