"With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian."
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"There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them."
"Reason and intellect are opening wedges in an understanding of reality."
"One of the reasons I don't do social media is that I like the feeling that if somebody asks me for a picture on the street, I don't have to say yes."
"Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others."
"Here on Earth there was undoubtedly a Christ. One of the reasons he swept in so suddenly and he would go forward so hard is, he had a good assist in back of him in terms of an implant."
"Gaga and Stefani are my nicknames. I guess when people meet me for the first time and call me Stefani, it bothers me. Because it's something that's reserved for only the people who are closest to me. It's not because I don't like my given name; it's that I became somebody else. I became somebody else for a reason, you know. This is part of what my message is - you can become whoever you want to be, to escape your past."
"I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one."
"They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way."
"The only reason to delay at this point was because the immediate prospect was so deeply uninviting."
"It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller."
"I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience."
"For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows."
"Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason."
"The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason."
"This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason."
"It is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent."
"There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom."
"The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion."
"Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason."