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Tag Name "Reason" (8918)

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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
Alain de Botton
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I believe a lot in destiny and I think that if something didn't happen, it was for a reason.
Didier Drogba
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The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little bit right.
Lauren F. Winner
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In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn't worry about death. If you have had a successful life, Lucretius tell us, there's no reason to mind its end. And, if you haven't had a good time, Why do you seek to add more years, which would also pass but ill?
Alain de Botton
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Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.
William Shakespeare
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Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.
Alain de Botton
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Certainly we do not need quantum mechanics for macroscopic objects, which are well described by classical physics - this is the reason why quantum mechanics seems so foreign to our everyday existence.
Alain Aspect
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Reason forbade me many things which, Instinctively, my nature was attracted to And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing, I believe a falsehood or deny the truth.
Al-Maʿarri
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They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the (religious) traditions or interpreted them!
Al-Maʿarri
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There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
William Shenstone
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A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.
William Shenstone
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And the things you know before you hear them these are you and the reason you are in the world.
William Stafford
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I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up.
William Steig
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work. And I didn't think about the material as much. But sometimes I've thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn't work out.
Al Pacino
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I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.
William T. Wiley
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Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.
William Targ
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There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.
Amy Tan
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The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
William Tyler
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One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.
Al Kaline
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There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.
William Vickrey
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. Let us be like the man of the frontier and always reveal with utmost honesty our real reasons for all that we do.
J. P. Morgan
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Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.
Carrie Fisher
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When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.
Al Gore
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And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and manifest reason for it but above all he must abstain from taking the property of others, for men forget more easily the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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