"Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason."
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"I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost."
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"Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest."
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"It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom."
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"I do not like money, money is the reason we fight."
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"Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny... it's not reason for one to blush and isolate oneself and to walk around keeping one's mouth shut."
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"It's foolish to be prejudiced. There are so many reasons to hate people on an individual basis."
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"In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting."
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"My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume."
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"They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism."
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"Perfect reason avoids all extremes."
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"Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . ."
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"Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse."
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"There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter."
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"The reason I beat the Austrians is, they did not known the value of five minutes"
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"If the reason for doing something is that everyone else is doing it, it's not a good enough reason."
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"Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason."
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"The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence."
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"Everything always happens for a reason."
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"Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition."
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