"He is not apprehended by reason, but by life."
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"Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}"
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"Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair."
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"More often than not, nothingness is reluctantly and despairingly taken to be the only hypothesis possible when all the others have failed, since by definition it cannot be disproven and is beyond the scope of reason."
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"The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons."
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"When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any."
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"The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly."
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"The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more."
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"I'm playing great music with great people and so there's no reason to stop."
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"I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well."
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"The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand very well."
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"Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that."
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"Establishing a client state in Iraq would significantly enhance that strategic power, a matter of great significance for the future. As Zbigniew Brzezinski observed, it would provide the US with "critical leverage" of its European and Asian rivals, a conception with roots in early post-war planning. These are substantial reasons for aggression - not unlike those of the British when they invaded and occupied Iraq over 80 years earlier, at the dawn of the oil age."
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"I agree with Bill Clinton that US forces should not be sent to Haiti, but not for his reasons."
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"The reason academic disputes are so vicious is that so little is at stake."
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"Usually when I see someone famous, for some reason, I think I know them."
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"The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation."
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"How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains."
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"I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one."
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"Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks."
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