"Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing."
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"Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in vain to conjecture; for what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain."
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"I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor."
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"There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them."
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"When I first met with Kurt [Sutter], it was one of those moments where you feel everything is happening for a reason."
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"To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God."
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"It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason"
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"A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground."
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"Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep."
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"It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead."
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"No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences."
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"There's no reason the Rangers can't get to the top."
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"If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what I wrote about you, which is entirely possible, then yes, I'm a dangerous writer."
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"Always be patient. I also believe everything happens for a reason."
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"Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal."
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"Virtue is nothing else than right reason"
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"For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts."
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"Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure."
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"This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will."
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"The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you."
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