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• The fact is that pictures which are unlike reality ought not be approved, and even if they are technically fine, this is no reason why they should offhand be judged to be correct, if their subject is lacking in the principles of reality carried out with no violations.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Reality, Facts, Reason Why

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book VII, Chapter V, Section 4), circa 15 BC.

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• Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.

  Colin Powell

  Race, Groups, Sake

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• I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.

  Saint Augustine

  Fall, Mean, Self

  Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.29, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Look at the flowers-for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.

  Rajneesh

  Flower, Simply Happy, Tree

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• Courtesy is doing that which nothing under the sun makes you do but human kindness. Courtesy springs from the heart; if the mind prompts the action, there is a reason; if there be a reason, it is not courtesy, for courtesy has no reason. Courtesy is good will, and good will is prompted by the heart full of love to be kind. Only the generous man is truly courteous. He gives freely without a thought of receiving anything in return.

  B. C. Forbes

  Kindness, Spring, Heart

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• There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there's one responsibility that you must never delegate. You, and no one but you, must investigate whether an adviser is trustworthy and charges reasonable fees.

  Benjamin Graham

  Responsibility, Investing, Shame

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• Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Spring, Divinity, Spirit

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• nothing is stronger or better founded than the sentiments for which we can give no reason.

  Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

  Giving, Feelings, Stronger

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• There is no lasting pleasure but contemplation; all others grow flat and insipid upon frequent use; and when a man hath run through a set of vanities, in the declension of his age, he knows not what to do with himself, if he cannot think; he saunters about from one dull business to another, to wear out time; and hath no reason to value Life but because he is afraid of death.

  Gilbert Burnet

  Running, Men, Thinking

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• There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Law, Privilege

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• Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Running, Horse, Animal

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• Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really fault someone for saying, 'What I'm doing right now works, so there's no reason to change it.'

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Independent, Writing, Faults

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• I'm not mad at anybody. I'm not being forced out. It is what it is. I have no reason to lie.

  Mike Hargrove

  Lying, Mad, Reason

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• There's really no reason to rehash something that you've already seen.

  James Wan

  Reason

  "Interview: James Wan, Leigh Whannell Talk ‘Insidious’ & Classic Horror". Interview with Rob Frappier, screenrant.com. March 13, 2011.

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• I do believe that everything happens for a reason. We're not on Earth by accident. Things don't happen in your life for no reason.

  Davone Bess

  Believe, Everything Happens For A Reason, Earth

  "Miami Dolphins receiver Davone Bess on his recent trip to Costa Rica, God’s purpose for his life and The Bess Route Foundation". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. June 2011.

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• It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love. It was not the thought that God was cruel that froze me. I had taught myself never to expect anything from Him. What froze me was the fact that I had absolutely no reason to move in any direction. What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity. Now even that had flickered out.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Moving, Years, Curiosity

  "Mother Night". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, www.esquire.com. 1961.

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• There's a rule for what makes good fantasy work, and it's as strange as any riddle ever posed in a fairy tale: In fantasy, you can do anything; and therefore, the one thing you must not do is 'just anything.' Why? Because in a story where anything can happen and anything can be true, nothing matters. You have no reason to care what happens. It's all arbitrary, and arbitrary isn't interesting.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  Interesting, Arbitrary, Stories

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• Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Names, Sound, Reason

  Evelyn Waugh (2002). “The loved one: an Anglo-American tragedy”

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• But don't get me wrong. As far as a man and a woman is concerned, I'm awfully happy there's a thing called sex. It's an extra something God gave us. I see no reason why it shouldn't be in pictures. Healthy, lusty sex is wonderful.

  John Wayne

  Sex, Men, Healthy

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• I haven't a clue why I've lasted so long. There's no reason. There are many people more talented than me. I think it's luck.

  Cher

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Different Faces, Expression, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• If Mexican farm labor is so much cheaper, maybe we should be growing our fruits and vegetables in Mexico. There's absolutely no reason to import Mexicans to do something they could do at home and then sell to us. I believe this is what economists call "competitive advantage".

  Ann Coulter

  Believe, Home, Vegetables

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• I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Book, Artist, Reason Why

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.46, Random House

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• I feel like I am a celebrity for no reason, like people are resentful I didn't have to play bars for 10 years to get a record deal.

  Carrie Underwood

  Years, Play, People

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• An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local and temporary bias. There is no reason to suppose that any one culture has seized upon an eternal sanity and will stand in history as a solitary solution of the human problem. Even the next generation knows better. Our only scientific course is to consider our own culture, so far as we are able, as one example among innumerable others of the variant configurations of human culture.

  Ruth Benedict

  Example, Generations, Culture

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