"I have friends who are majorly into the cosplay culture and have urged me to go to a convention for no other reason than to meet others like me."
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"The primary reason for failure is that people do not develop new plans to replace those plans that didn't work."
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"Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne"
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"Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough."
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"More people have been killed in the name of God than for any other reason."
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"Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason."
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"The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true."
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"The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice."
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"We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom."
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"For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition."
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"Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold."
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"The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless."
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"The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason."
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"God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves."
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"Eloquence may set fire to reason."
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"To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back."
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"When we anticipate, we're the happiest. Unless you're on antidepressants. The reason you take antidepressants is because you can't anticipate. You think everything's going to be horrible, so it usually is."
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"Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder."
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"The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party."
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"Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough."
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