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• But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.

  Lily Tomlin

  People, Cost, Reason

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• As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.

  Pete Townshend

  Jobs, Gun, Men

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• In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Art, Law, Reason

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• I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.

  Eddie Vedder

  Technology, People, Voting

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• I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends.

  Curt Weldon

  Worry, Information, Reason

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• Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humor, People

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• Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Life, Humility, History

  "The Future of Architecture".

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• White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it.

  Rob Zombie

  Kids, Thinking, White

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• There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

  Ezra Pound

  Change, Book, Men

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.86, New Directions Publishing

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• If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain - and there is no reason to think that those alternatives are inferior.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Writing, Thinking, Civilization

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• I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures.

  Gary Snyder

  Girl, Children, Writing

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• There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Memorable, Writing, Angel

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Aug 20, 2014

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• No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

  Bob Dylan

  Thieves, Life Is, Excited

  'All Along the Watchtower' (1968 song)

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• I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.

  Saul Williams

  Soul, Steps, Spirit

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• The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Inspirational, Dream, Brilliant

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• The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Wish, Facts

  "A 'Stimulus Package'?" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 29, 2008.

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• Dr. Adler had instructed me to always say whatever I was thinking, but this was difficult for me, for the act of thinking and the act of articulating those thoughts were not synchronous to me, or even necessarily consecutive. I knew that I thought and spoke in the same language and that theoretically there should be no reason why I could not express my thoughts as they occurred or soon thereafter, but the language in which I thought and the language in which I spoke, though both English, often seemed divided by a gap that could not be simultaneously, or even retrospectively, bridged.

  Peter Cameron

  Thinking, Drs, Gaps

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.64, Macmillan

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• You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Spring, Rain, Fall

  Ernest Hemingway, Robert E. Gajdusek (1978). “Hemingway's Paris”, Scribner Book Company

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• Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

  Harper Lee

  Winning, Years, Tkam

  Harper Lee (1970). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Dramatic Publishing

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• no reason to mention my peculiarities, my wandering in the maze these many years, shut away from sight. and from love, too.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Sight, Years, Mazes

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.107, A&C Black

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• Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

  Daniel Handler

  Healing, Teens, Reason

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• But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Hate, Men

  D. H. Lawrence (1994). “D.H. Lawrence: Selected Works”, Gramercy

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• Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Children, Heart, Reason

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• Fine, if you see no reason to worry about bisonbecks who do the bidding of Risto'-- he sat down on a log and pulled out his lunch--'or mordakleeps who team up with anything nasty and currently have a wonderful working relationship with that same evil wizard Risto, then why should I worry? Why should we warn Kale?' Leetu's scowl turned darker. Dar lifted his sandwich to his mouth, but had one more thing to say before he bit into it. 'Actually, I agree with you. Worrying now over an encounter that might occur later would only ruin our digestion.

  Donita K. Paul

  Team, Kale, Lunch

  Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonSpell: A Novel”, p.62, WaterBrook

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• My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Thinking, Views

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