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• But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.

  Talcott Parsons

  Facts, Failing, Reason

  Talcott Parsons (1967). “Structure of Social Action”, Free Pr

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• I think there's no reason the Davis Cup couldn't be as powerful and popular and profitable as any of the four majors are today, given some changes.

  Jim Courier

  Powerful, Thinking, Four

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• There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake.

  Toby Young

  School, Curriculum, Reason Why

  "Can Toby Young's free school succeed?". Interview with Peter Wilby, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2011.

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• Since scarcity is the basic economic problem, if it does not exist then there is no reason for my economics course. Devoting time to the study of how people use limited resources to fulfill unlimited wants and needs should help us to discover how to best utilize the resources we have at our disposal.

  Kurt Bills

  People, Limited Resources, Scarcity

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• I'm ashamed to say this, but I watched every episode of 'Starsky and Hutch' as a kid. I loved that show, but now I think it's stupid - they'd have a car chase for no reason, then Paul Michael Glaser would shoot the car and it would blow up.

  Shane Black

  Stupid, Kids, Blow

  "Wright vs. Black". www.esquire.com. April 27, 2007.

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• I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as I got older, I began to see that there was no reason to limit myself to any intellectual or conceptual postulate, when in fact I'm a professional student of music.

  Anthony Braxton

  Narrative Structure, Guy, Intellectual

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• Each day, you get an ounce more confidence. When we're playing like we are, there's no reason not to.

  Drew Brees

  Each Day, Reason

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• There is no reason why agreement on particular points should not be both possible and advantageous to the so-called neutrals and to one or more of the blocs, either existing or in the process of formation, within the League of Nations.

  Hjalmar Branting

  Agreement, League, Reason Why

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• While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed.

  John Engler

  Jobs, Mean, Opportunity

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• Just because you have a blog doesn't mean that you should, like, lie for no reason.

  Sky Ferreira

  Lying, Mean, Reason

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

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• I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Fighting, Low Self Esteem, Shells

  Song: Lost, Album: Solace, 1991

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• Short people got no reason to live.

  Randy Newman

  People, Reason, Controversy

  Song: Short People, Album: Little Criminals

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• Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Business, Finance, Reason

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• We shall have to pass through many a valley, many a narrow defile. Many will grow tired on the way. Of course they will mostly be those who have no reason to do so.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Tired, Valleys, Way

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• I love getting into a studio with a bunch of friends. When the day's done, we've made something. We recognize that we're from different walks of the music industry, and there's no reason we shouldn't be collaborating. That's what I'm trying to create with thenewno2 - a sense of community.

  Dhani Harrison

  Community, Trying, Different

  "Dhani Harrison Honors Father George, Faces Fear of Missing Out" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. September 28, 2011.

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• I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

  Lara St. John

  Who I Am, Looks, Reason

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• Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Medicine, Psychology

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy the efforts of the patriot as of the philosopher, to exclude its influence if possible, from social life. The good are rare enough at best. There is no reason to subdivide them by artificial lines. But whether we shall ever be able so far to perfect the principles of society as that political opinions shall, in its intercourse, be as inoffensive as those of philosophy, mechanics, or any other, may well be doubted.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Philosophy, Political Opinions, Evil

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.137, Algora Publishing

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• God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters, pedants, and preachers, who try to teach God his job as Creator.

  Elie Faure

  God, Jobs, Children

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• If we can hump dead animals and antelopes, there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope.

  Eminem

  Animal, Men, Social Taboos

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• The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people.

  Meir Kahane

  Kings, Heart, People

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• I work from a deep sense of insecurity. I have the belief, and I can't shake it, that there are endless reasons to turn the channel. There are hundreds of channels and entirely other things to do besides TV. And if you make a bad television show there's no reason for the audience to come back the following week.

  Chuck Lorre

  Insecurity, Television, Tvs

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

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• There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous.

  Tobey Maguire

  Dying, Needs, Actors

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• There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Space, Design, Building

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• There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.

  Alexander Lebed

  Reason Why, Should, Democrat

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