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• A nation lives forever through its concepts, honor, and culture. It is for these reasons that the rulers of nations must judge and act not only on the basis of physical and material interests of the nation but on the basis of the nation's historical honor, of the nation's eternal interests. Thus: not bread at all costs, but honor at all costs.

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Judging, Forever, Historical

  "For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard". Book by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, 1936.

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• But here's the ugly truth: nature doesn't care about democracy, or who's right, or what's fair. And because of the slow-change aspect of climate, we can't wait until the worst effects are upon us to make a decision -- by then, it would be far, far too late. The scenario we may be faced with is one where doing something for the wrong reasons, run by the wrong people, may still save more lives than holding out for a more appealing option.

  Jamais Cascio

  Running, People, Decision

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• Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!

  Solomon Northup

  Dog, Men, Alligators

  Solomon Northup, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2014). “Twelve Years A Slave: illustrated Original Edition With Bonus of Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.74, Ageless Reads

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• For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.

  Ken Jennings

  Kids, Devoted, Seems

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• A Seed for Contemplation:
  Creative people who cherish the gift of life often slip into the secret chambers of the creative mind. Their solutions are well-rounded, more sensible than those of people who rely solely upon reason as their mainstay. Gratitude unseals fountains of creativity, because a grateful person is relaxed. This allows him to take stock of his circumstances with an objective mind. A creative person often gets three-dimensional answers to his problems. -.

  Harold Klemp

  Gratitude, Grateful, Creativity

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• There are people who are excitable by nature and allow themselves to become angry for the most trivial of reasons. Judo can help such people learn to control themselves. Through training, they quickly realize that anger is a waste of energy, that it has only negative effects on the self and others.

  Kano Jigoro

  Self, People, Training

  "Kodokan Judo : The Essential Guide to Judo by Its Fouder Jigoro Kano". Book by Kano Jigoro, p. 23, 1994.

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• I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.

  Neko Case

  Christian, Father, Should Have

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• So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.

  Lee Hazlewood

  Way, Producers

  "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.

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• The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all books in the name of one book alone; hatred of sexuality, women,and pleasure; hatred of feminine; hatred of body, of desires, of drives. Instead Judaism, Christianity, and Islam extol faith and belief, obedience and submission, taste for death and longing for the beyond, the asexual angel and chastity, virginity and monogamous love, wife and mother, soul and spirit. In other words, life crucified and nothingness exalted.

  Michel Onfray

  Mother, Atheist, Book

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• Obviously, I believe that to pursue the American Dream is not only futile but self-destructive because ultimately it destroys everything and everyone involved with it. By definition it must, because it nurtures everything except those things that are important: integrity, ethics, truth, our very heart and soul. Why? The reason is simple: because Life/life is giving, not getting.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Dream, Integrity, Believe

  FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Feb 22, 2012

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• If you practice Yoga for small, selfish reasons, you will remain the same, bound by your beliefs about what you can and cannot do. Let go and offer your effort to limitless potential. Dedicate yourself to the happiness of all beings.

  Sharon Gannon

  Letting Go, Selfish, Yoga

  Sharon Gannon, David Life (2011). “Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul”, p.179, Ballantine Books

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• Without reason, why bother? Existence needs purpose: to be able to endure the pain of life with dignity; to give us a reason to continue. The meaning must enter our hearts, not our heads. We must understand the meaning of our suffering

  Sarah Winman

  Pain, Heart, Giving

  Sarah Winman (2017). “The Sarah Winman Collection: WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT and A YEAR OF MARVELLOUS WAYS”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• If a man doesn't have a dream, then he has nothing to work for. Nothing to get up in the morning. No reason, no purpose, to be

  Kai Greene

  Dream, Morning, Men

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• There is a quality of lightness, easiness, and in some sense blatant unseriousness that pervades Classical Christianity's dialogue with modernity. The Christian intellect has no reason to be intimidated in the presense of later-stage modernity. Christianity has seen too many 'modern eras' to be cowed by this one.

  Thomas Oden

  Christian, Quality, Eras

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• Maybe this one moment, with this one person, is the very reason we’re here on Earth at this time.

  Jean Watson

  Earth, Moments, Persons

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• Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue moral condemnations of capitalism, preferring instead to lay out, calmly and ruthlessly, his reasons for believing that it is destined to be replaced by socialism. And that is why Nietzsche mocks Christianity for portraying its crucified Saviour as bait wriggling on a hook to catch unsuspecting souls.

  Robert Paul Wolff

  Believe, Issues, Soul

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• The loss of reason seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

  Leonid Andreyev

  War, Loss, Honorable Death

  "The Seven That Were Hanged".

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• If outside forces and culture were the reasons behind declining and non-influential churches, we would likely have no churches today. The greatest periods of growth, particularly the first-century growth, took place in adversarial cultures. We are not hindered by external forces; we are hindered by our own lack of commitment and selflessness.

  Thom S. Rainer

  Commitment, Church Today, Growth

  "“I Am A Church Member” – A Conversation with Thom Rainer". Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. April 25, 2013.

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• Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they are a Godsend to the actor.

  Thayer David

  Jobs, Actors, Hours

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• The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.

  Frances Lear

  Men, Mortality, Older Women

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• Terror collided violently with reason.

  Anita Moorjani

  Terror

  Anita Moorjani (2012). “Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing”, p.44, Hay House, Inc

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• I started writing everything down.I wrote for the same reason someone lost sticks a message in a bottle.
  I’m here. Help. Please find me.

  Heather Sellers

  Writing, Bottles, Messages

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• Because people are more than emotions. People have thoughts and reasons for doing things.

  Veronica Rossi

  People, Emotion

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• If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are in the dark.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Love You, Dark, Moments

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• Everyone happens for a reason, learn it and move on. Don't be bitter about what happened, be happy about what will

  Zayn Malik

  Moving, Bitter, Happened

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