"There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason."
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"I get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a punch."
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"The only reason I'd ever get a sex change operation is to see what it's like to be right all the time."
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"...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time."
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"Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness."
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"Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence."
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"Let our reason, and not our senses, be the rule of our conduct; for reason will teach us to think wisely, to speak prudently, and to behave worthily."
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"Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything."
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"The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh."
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"The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason."
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"I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change"
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"The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living."
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"I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it."
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"Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons."
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"Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground."
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"You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct. True conservatism is only possible through knowledge and reason."
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"Hell is the impossibility of reason."
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"Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience."
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"Vanity is the quicksand of reason."
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"[Bach is the] reason I became a musician"
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