"I do not think you can find a reason for everything you make."
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"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."
"Don't ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what."
"Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations."
"Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it."
"Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer."
"Where can an interrogation lead us which does not follow reason in its horizontal course, but seeks to retrace in time that constant vertically which confronts European culture with what it is not?"
"Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable"
"Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do."
"Danger is a side effect of what I do, not the reason behind it."
"Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle."
"I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons."
"I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons."