"The only reason a road is good as every wanderer knows / Is just because of the homes, the homes, the homes to which one goes"
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"our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are."
"Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know."
"Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered."
"The only reason I was able to accomplish things is the great people willing to work with me. A company is a group of people organized to create a product or service, and that product or service is only as good as the people in the company - and how excited they are about creating it. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. Without them, I would have accomplished very little. I just happen to be the face of the companies."
"Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed."
"Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job."
"Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them."
"Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact."
"Law is mind without reason."
"Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms."
"Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot."
"The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls."
"I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love."
"Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason."
"Reason is the enemy of faith."
"There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time."
"The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches."
"I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely."
"I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control."