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• Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.

  Blaise Pascal

  Faith, Limits, Guides

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• If the nearly one-and-a-half million babies aborted in America each year could, somehow, vote, chameleon candidates would find fresh reason to be concerned about abortion, whereas now they are unconcerned.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Baby, Years, America

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• Sandy deWitt at TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris in Johannesburg, South Africa, taught me to make a decision and stick with it. Every day we're faced with reasons why we shouldn't do good work: it's too scary, too hard to pull off, there's no time, no money, etc. You have to be brave and commit to your choices in the face of adversity. If you waver, nothing will turn out the way you imagined it.

  Melissa Sue Anderson

  Adversity, Decision, Brave

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• . . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another; they exist in a sea of blood. A European said that the reason why in India animals were not killed was because it was supposed that they contained the spirits of ancestors. This reason was worthy of a savage nation who are not many steps from the brute.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Animal, Blood, Sea

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3670, Manonmani Publishers

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• When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.

  Willa Cather

  Kindness, People, Philanthropy

  My Mortal Enemy pt. 1, ch. 6 (1926)

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• At the end of every hard day, people find some reason to believe.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Work, Believe, Inspiration

  Song: Reason To Believe, Album: Nebraska, 1982

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• I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.

  Richard Gere

  Regret, Healing, Everything Happens For A Reason

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• I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.

  Alanis Morissette

  Art, Honesty, Believe

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• Why do we fail? Is it because we are unlucky? Is it because we have not worked very hard? I s it because we have not invoked God's Compassion and Blessings? Is it because God has accepted this failure as an experience He wanted to have in our life? Is it because God has granted this failure to us? Is it because God has willed that we should lose? No! not it is for a different reason that we experience failure. It is for the strengthening of our consciousness that, at times, God grants us defeat.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Failure, Compassion, Blessing

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• There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

  Edith Hamilton

  Music, Beautiful, Failure

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• It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

  Aristotle

  Failure, Missing, Way

  Nichomachean Ethics (c. 330 b.c.).

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• You must have a reason to be in the places to which you go, and you must do only things that you really care about.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Care

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• The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and realise they can connect it with something else.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Creativity, Data, Looks

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• There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". Language can be used to transmit information, but it also serves many other purposes: to establish relations among people, to express or clarify thought, for play, for creative mental activity, to gain understanding, and so on. In my opinion, there is no reason to accord privileged status to one or the other of these modes.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Communication, Play

  "Language and Responsibility". Book by Noam Chomsky, chomsky.info. 1977.

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• From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the civilized man rejects. The former has the palate of an outdoor man. It takes a savage or wild taste to appreciate a wild fruit.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Apples, Appreciate

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.201, Gibbs Smith

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• Often, our most rewarding dreams are staring us right in the face, but for some reason we focus on how hard things are, how we are scared of the unknown and what would happen if we failed.

  Joel Brown

  Dream, Focus, Faces

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• You can't judge my choices without understanding my reasons.

  Kid Cudi

  Judging, Choices, Understanding

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• Fellini was more in love with breasts than Russ Meyer, more wracked with guilt than Ingmar Bergman, more of a flamboyant showman than Busby Berkeley... Amarcord seems almost to flow from the camera, as anecdotes will flow from one who has told them often and knows they work. This was the last of his films made for no better reason than Fellini wanted to make it.

  Roger Ebert

  Guilt, Cameras, Anecdotes

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• Life is not always easy. And that is a major reason why it is so precious. Many of life's best rewards are possible only because you must work your way through difficult challenges to get to them. If everything in life were easy, there would be no opportunity for real fulfillment.

  Ralph Marston

  Real, Opportunity, Challenges

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• I'm loved unconditionally, for no other reason than simply because I exist.

  Anita Moorjani

  Anita Moorjani (2012). “Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing”, p.70, Hay House, Inc

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• There's only 2 reasons that you hate gay marriage;
  1. You're dumb, or 2. You're secretly worried that dicks are delicious.

  Joe Rogan

  Hate, Gay, Dumb

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• I see no reason that a golf course cannot be played in 18 birdies. Just because no one has ever done that doesn't mean it can't be done.

  Ben Hogan

  Mean, Golf, Done

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• And make sure that capital structure we have in place is the right capital structure. I think that's the reason that we've been successful.

  Henry Kravis

  Successful, Thinking, Structure

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• The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

  Ayn Rand

  Moral, Accepting, Rational

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.961, Penguin

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• When someone hurts you, your first thought may be to wish you had never met them at all. But remember that even those who've hurt you, came into your life for a reason, and left for a reason. It’s for the best and healing starts with acceptance.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Hurt, Healing, Acceptance

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