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