"Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?"
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"Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it."
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"One of the reasons I thought a censure resolution was appropriate was because if somebody had censured Nixon or even if a resolution of either house had passed, saying what you're doing is unacceptable to Congress, that shot across the bow might have straightened him up."
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"No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness."
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"Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled."
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"The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?'"
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"The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it."
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"God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason."
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"There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it."
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"Don't reason in the mind just obey in the spirit."
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"There are reasons, and then there are excuses."
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"She spoke under her breath to Nick. "Is there a reason he's only wearing one sock?" "He puked on his foot." "Oh." She turned back to Huxley. "Can we get you another sock? Maybe a blanket or something?"
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"No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true."
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"The reason why things work is because of love."
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"I think the reason that the Trump economic agenda is beneficial is, he is doing the right things. He wants to see growth, he wants to see to lower taxes, he wants to see this cash pile sitting outside the US return to the US. All of these things I think will be good for the US economy, and as I've said, if the US economy grows, the global economy benefits hugely."
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"How can a reason which hates God be called sound?"
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"There is on earth among all dangers no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroit reason...Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed."
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"The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it."
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"Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it."
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"Unless you got a really good reason, you should be nice."
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