"The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone."
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"No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide."
"there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed"
"There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow."
"Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies."
"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."
"You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into."
"We have a lot of reasons but only one real one."
"You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship."
"Sometimes when things seem to be going wrong, they are going right for reasons you are yet to understand."
"Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul."
"When Reason died, then Wisdom was born."
"What you put out is what you get back, and the reason so many are so short of money is that they put little or nothing out"
"Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason."
"I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment."
"The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything."
"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."
"It doesn't take much to lose everything, just a little departure from reason"
"Love has reasons which reason cannot understand."
"Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb."