Reason Quotes - Page 20

• Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very deeply by many opponents, and theory, based on a small number of 'reliable' games, must be rather unreliable.

  Bent Larsen

  Small Numbers, Games, Play

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• For over forty years, in a spirit of love, members of the Church have been counseled to be thrifty and self-reliant; to avoid debt; pay tithes and a generous fast offering; be industrious; and have sufficient food, clothing, and fuel on hand to last at least one year. Today there are compelling reasons to reemphasize this counsel.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Religious, Compelling Reason, Offering

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• In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Hatred, Intellectual

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• There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write.

  Gloria Estefan

  Writing, No Reason

  Reuters News Agency, October 10, 2005.

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• Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.

  Eliphas Levi

  Weakness, Vices, Poison

  Eliphas Levi (1968). “Transcendental Magic”, p.353, Weiser Books

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• We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Delight, Moments, Pursuit

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1158, Delphi Classics

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• It was very easy to kind of, kinda shut off and just, just kinda go crazy and just kinda dive into this or that. You never really take a minute to look around, you know take stock and see where you're at and make sure you're doing things for the right reasons and make sure that you remember to call that person who's really important to you and you know, tell them what's on your mind, and be honest with yourself.

  Andrew McMahon

  Crazy, Mind, Important

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• Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.

  Indra Devi

  Husband, Home, Technology

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• Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

  William Blake

  Art, Business, Wind

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Suffering, Tyranny

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “Pseudodoxia epidemica, books V-VII. Religio medici. The garden of Cyprus”, p.315

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• There is only one source of authentic self-confidence: reason.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Source

  AYN RAND “THE NEW LEFT: THE ANTI-INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION”

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• In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against which to contrast them. Of late I have done some systematic reading of ladies papers. The plain girl submits to a course of "treatment." In eighteen months she bursts upon Society an acknowledged beauty.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Beauty, Girl

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.551, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Eighty is when you order a steak and the headwaiter puts it through the blender. Or when you wake up as many times during the night as Burt Reynolds, but not for the same reason.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Night

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• Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was something natural - as is listening to music or playing an instrument for some people. For this reason I searched for themes of my era and my generation. Photography offered this, so I chose it as a medium for painting.

  Gerhard Richter

  Photography, Mean, People

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false. ... Rather, how much more admirable the painting must be considered, if having no relief at all, it appears to have as much as sculpture!

  Galileo Galilei

  Doe, Relief, Sculpture

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• Virtually all of life's ills boil down to mindlessness. If you can understand someone else's perspective, then there's no reason to be angry at them, envy them, steal from them.

  Ellen Langer

  Wise, Envy, Perspective

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• No one can manage you if you don't give them permission to do so. But if you are interested in accomplishing as much as you are capable of, then I believe there are good reasons to grant that permission.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Believe, Giving

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• Conscious auto-suggestion, made with confidence, faith, and perseverance realizes itself automatically, in all matters within reason.

  Emile Coue

  Perseverance, Suggestions, Matter

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• To miss out on joy is to miss out on the reason for your existence.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Happiness, Joy, Missing

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• But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.

  Agnes Smedley

  May, Matter, Reason Why

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• You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn’t matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.

  David Brock

  Talking, Political, Matter

  "The Republican Noise Machine". Interview with Bradford Pulmer, www.motherjones.com. September 1, 2004.

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• For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Girl, Thinking, Feminism

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• I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this poetry as a way of expressing my feelings, because I didn't have any other outlet.

  Matt de la Pena

  Feelings, Style, Way

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• There is a logical explanation for everything, often mistaken for the reason it happened.

  Robert Breault

  Logical, Explanation, Mistaken

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• I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.

  David McCullough

  Book, Today, Madness

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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