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• I have a hunch the most important reason we're going to space is not known now.

  Burt Rutan

  Space, Important, Hunches

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• The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the work which I had undertaken. . . . Astronomy is written for astronomers. To them my work too will seem, unless I am mistaken, to make some contribution.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Novelty, Opinion, Astronomy

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• On scientific grounds this big bang assumption is much less the palatable of the two. For it is an irrational process that cannot be described in scientific terms. . . . On philosophical grounds too I cannot see any good reason for preferring the big bang idea. Indeed it seems to me in the philosophical sense to be a distinctly unsatisfactory notion, since it puts the basic assumption out of sight where it can never be challenged by a direct appeal to observation.

  Fred Hoyle

  Philosophical, Sight, Ideas

  Fred Hoyle (1960). “The nature of the universe”

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• There are reasons, increasing in number and quality, to believe that the masses of ordinary galaxies may have been underestimated by a factor of 10 or more.

  Jeremiah P. Ostriker

  Believe, Numbers, Quality

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• Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers abroad, they are focusing their anxieties on home. The reasons are not far to seek. We are at a turning point in human history. . . . We could turn our attention to the problems that going to the Moon certainly will not solve ... But I think this would be fatal to our future. . . . A society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Moving

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• I train for two reasons. Number one, I love working out, and number two, I want to win. You can't win if you don't train to the best of your ability.

  Branch Warren

  Bodybuilding, Winning, Two

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• Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Yield, Europe, May

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.54, editionNEXT.com

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• War makes extremely heavy demands on the soldier's strength and nerves. For this reason, make heavy demands on your men in peacetime exercises.

  Erwin Rommel

  Military, War, Exercise

  Erwin Rommel (2012). “Infantry Attacks”, p.15, Frontline Books

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• On your birthday thank your parents and celebrate with them. They are the reason you are here and it is their day too.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, Parent

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• I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.

  Rick Baker

  Hate, People, Important

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• The reason why you were allowed to get away with that in the '60s and '70s is because this country's racist administrative policies were such that rich white kids were getting exemptions. I said no exemptions.

  Montel Williams

  Country, Kids, White

  "Interview: Montel Williams". www.askmen.com.

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• There's enough food in this world. There's enough housing in this world. There's enough shelter in this world. There's enough clothing in this world. There's enough teachers, there's enough universities for everybody's needs to be met, and the reasons they aren't is not because of lack of resources. It's because of distribution, and that's the politics of hate, which is why this is a movement against that. It's a politics of love.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Love, Teacher, Hate

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• Now that the 2014 elections are over and national politics is all about 2016, Democrats have good reason to worry that, for all his success at the polls, President Obama will leave his party with a toxic legacy.

  Byron York

  Party, Worry, President

  "Obama's dangerous legacy for Democrats" by Byron York, www.washingtonexaminer.com. December 2, 2014.

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• That does almost nothing to address voters' concerns, which remain a potent factor in the campaign. The bottom line is, there's a reason Republicans keep pushing so hard against Obamacare: So far, it's working.

  Byron York

  Obamacare, Doe, Campaigns

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• I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.

  Daniel Kahikina Akaka

  War, Believe, Past

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• Prejudice is the conjuror of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, over-powering reason, making strong people weak, and weak people weaker. God gave us the large-hearted charity which "beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things," which "thinketh no evil!"

  John Ross Macduff

  Strong, People, Evil

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• I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.

  David Talbot

  Business, Teenager, Integrity

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• Live every day to fulfill your personal mission. God has a reason for whatever season you are living through right now. A season of loss or blessing? A season of activity or hibernation? A season of growth or incubation? You may think you're on a detour, but God knows the best way for you to reach your destination.

  Barbara Johnson

  Loss, Blessing, Thinking

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.54, Zondervan

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• Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

  Susanna Moodie

  Liars, Lying, Pride

  Susanna Moodie (1853). “Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush”, p.76, London : R. Bentley

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• The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic experience, and the finest words no compensation for lack of it. It is for this reason that we are moved by the true Primitives and that the most accomplished art craftsmanship leaves us cold.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Art, Communication, Mean

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• Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

  Mark Twain

  Tired, Forbidden, Concern

  "The Gorky Incident". Essay by Mark Twain, 1906.

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• Our life is what our thoughts make it. Do every act of your life as if it were your last. In a word, your life is short. You must make the most of the present with the aid of reason and justice. Since it is possible that you may be quitting life this very moment, govern every act and thought accordingly.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Justice, May

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• "Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel and act in harmony with its own nature. Is a change of place enough reason for my soul to become unhappy and worn, for me to become depressed, humbled, cowering, and afraid? Can you discover any reasons for this?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Change, Long, Soul

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• Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.

  George Santayana

  Love, Light, Illustration

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.27, MIT Press

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• Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I'm very much afraid that you will never really see the point.

  Hafez

  Love, Book, Trying

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