"I have described Swaraj as Ramarajya and Ramarajya is an impossibility unless we have thousands of Sitas."
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"Nothing in the Shastras, which is capable of being reasoned, can stand if it is in conflict with reason."
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"And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands."
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"Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason."
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"I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect."
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"I'm totally engaging in cultural stereotyping, no question about it. But I think it's OK because I'm doing it for a reason, for a good reason."
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"When I do these interviews, I get really nervous. And when I get nervous, it comes off as mellow for some reason."
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"What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse."
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"What is reason now was passion heretofore."
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"Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence."
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"The first time I ever saw platform shoes in the '70s, I knew they'd been revived from the '40s, and I felt sickened. And for whatever reason, they keep getting revived. They've come back four times. I wish we could let them die. They want to die. They were horrible then, they're horrible now."
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"people do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons."
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"The only place I really get recognized is at Ralphs. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go to Ralphs, and for some reason, everyone there recognizes me."
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"... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting."
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"The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same."
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"Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason."
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"If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it."
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"From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason; and to be always the same, in sharp pains, on the occasion of the loss of a child, and in long illness."
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"To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason."
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"Everything takes place in a season. There was a season when that's all I did was listen to the music. Now I'm just in a place where I don't listen, I create. And if I do listen there are specific things that I listen to, and for specific reasons."
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