Reason Quotes - Page 12

• To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.

  Paul Fussell

  War, Home, Ends

  Paul Fussell (1990). “Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War”, p.141, Oxford University Press, USA

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• First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn't vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.

  Marty Meehan

  Oil, House, Favors

  "Hardball" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. April 25, 2006.

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• In the heart of every lawyer, worthy of the name, there burns a deep ambition so to bear himself that the profession may be stronger by reason of his passage through its ranks, and that he may leave the law itself a better instrument of human justice than he found it.

  John W. Davis

  Heart, Ambition, Law

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• Honestly, happy. This happened for a reason. By having to answer that question in front of a national audience, God was testing my character and faith. I'm glad I stayed true to myself.

  Carrie Prejean

  Character, Answers, Honestly

  "Exclusive: Carrie Prejean Says 'God Was Testing My Faith' With Gay Marriage Question". "FOX News" with Courtney Friel, www.foxnews.com. April 20, 2009.

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• Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

  Deborah Tannen

  Gender, Authority, Notion

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• But really, what else are you going to talk about in line at the liquor store? Childhood trauma seems like the natural choice, since it’s the reason why most of us are in line there to begin with.

  Jenny Lawson

  Choices, Childhood, Liquor Stores

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened”, p.16, Penguin

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• We learn from here the humility of the Holy One, Blessed is He. Since man is in the likeness of the angels, and they would be jealous of him, for this reason, He consulted them.

  Rashi

  Blessed, Jealous, Humility

  Commenting on Gen. 1:26; why does it say "Let us make man"?,

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• I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

  Andres Serrano

  Spiritual, Church, Aesthetic

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• Stick choice should be every drummers first decision. Sticks are the liaison between you and your creative expression on the drums. Getting there the smoothest way is the reason I'm using Vater.

  Rikki Rockett

  Expression, Choices, Creative

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• Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and physics are very pleasant things to do.

  Dirk Jan Struik

  Math, Long, Healthy

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• But what is the way forward? I know what it isn't. It's not, as we once believed, plenty to eat and a home with all the modern conveniences. It's not a 2,000-mile-long wall to keep Mexicans out or more accurate weapons to kill them. It's not a better low-fat meal or a faster computer speed. It's not a deodorant, a car, a soft drink, a skin cream. The way forward is found on a path through the wilderness of the head and heart---reason and emotion. Thinking, knowing, understanding.

  Laurence Gonzales

  Wall, Home, Heart

  Laurence Gonzales (2009). “Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things”, p.138, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Novelists

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.81, Penguin

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• All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

  Ayn Rand

  Evil, Novelists, Use

  "The Virtue of Selfishness". Book by Ayn Rand, 1964.

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• Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Hate, Fighting, Men

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• The choicest gift of God to man, the gift of reason; and having endeavoured to force upon himself the belief of a system against which reason revolts, he ungratefully calls it human reason; as if man could give reason to himself.

  Thomas Paine

  Gift From God

  "Selected Writings of Thomas Paine".

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• There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other.

  Edward Zwick

  Challenges, Stories, Fuel

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

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• Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.

  David Bentley Hart

  World, Encounters, Employment

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• Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Speak, Persuasion, Interest

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• God is not pleased by blood – and not acting reasonably is contrary to God's nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly, without violence and threats... To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death.

  Manuel II Palaiologos

  Strong, Mean, Blood

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• You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

  Jonathan Swift

  Persons

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• The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Suicide, Real, Prevention

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• A person repents when he comes to the place where he discovers that the will of God is the government of his life and the glory of God is the reason for his life. He only has repented who has changed his mind about his reason for being.

  Paris Reidhead

  Life, Change, God

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• Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end.

  Khalil

  Lying, Tyrants, Long

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• There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards.

  Terry Pratchett

  Magic, Wizards, World

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)”, p.182, Random House

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• The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.

  William Bell

  Important, Firsts, Facts

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