Reason Quotes - Page 25

• I am not saying people should not be free to join whichever reason they choose but should we be forced to live our lives around a belief system that originated somewhere around the fourth or fifth century BC. I cannot see any more reason to base a belief system around Christianity, Judaism or Islam than I can around Lord of the Rings.

  Alan Moore

  People, Islam, Belief

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• When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Path, Should, Certain

  "Aung San Suu Kyi: I never hated the Burmese army". Interview with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. June 18, 2012.

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• Nothing
  happens without a reason.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Happens, Things Happen

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• The single most important principle I ever discovered is this: the goal or purpose of the Christian is precisely the pursuit of happiness - in God. The reason for this is that there is no greater way to glorify God than to find in Him the happiness that my soul so desperately craves.

  Sam Storms

  Christian, Pursuit Of Happiness, Goal

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• Don’t make excuses for why you can’t get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.

  Ralph Marston

  Focus, Done, Reason Why

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• I think we need to find more reasons to unify rather than divide each other.

  T.I.

  Thinking, Needs, Divides

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• There are reasons, and then there are excuses.

  Julia Child

  Excuse

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• If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all

  David Platt

  Compassion, Wonder, Christ

  David Platt (2010). “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream”, p.108, Multnomah

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• One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Art, Order, Important

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• Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason

  Herbert Marcuse

  Lying, Harmony, Form

  Herbert Marcuse (2015). “Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud”, p.144, Beacon Press

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• That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of sensation and without reason, is always in a process of becoming and perishing and never really is.

  Plato

  Becoming, Helping, Opinion

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.2120, Delphi Classics

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• The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.

  Theda Bara

  Ghouls, Good Woman, Vampire

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• The reason I've been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Successful, Focus, Able

  "24 Quotes on Success From Oprah Winfrey" by Grace Bluerock, www.entrepreneur.com. January 29, 2016.

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• But fear - panic - knows no reason. It brings into being overnight the things that it fears. It is the greatest torment of humanity. Fear is, in short, the devil. It causes most of the sin, disaster, disease and misery of the world. It is the ravening lion roaming the earth seeking whom it may...devour. The only refuge is in the knowledge that it has no power other than the power you give it.

  Robert Collier

  Giving, Humanity, Devil

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• I used to believe in God. The Christian one, that is (There are a few thousand to choose from. But I was born in a country where the dominant religion was Christianity so I believed in that one. Isn't it weird how that always happens?). Luckily I was also interested in science and nature. And reason and logic. And honesty and truth. And equality and fairness. By the age of eight I was an atheist.

  Ricky Gervais

  Christian, Country, Atheist

  "Repeat offender: New Humanist interviews Ricky Gervais". New Humanist interview, newhumanist.org.uk. September 5, 2011.

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• Whatever the reason you're on Mars, I'm glad you're there, and I wish I was with you.

  Carl Sagan

  Wish, Mars, Glad

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• Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system

  Giorgio Agamben

  War, Mean, Political

  Giorgio Agamben (2008). “State of Exception”, p.2, University of Chicago Press

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• Television is a non graded curriculum and excludes no viewer for any reason, at any time. In other words, in doing away wtih the idea of sequenece and continuity in education, television undermines the idea that sequence and continuity have anything to do with thought itself.

  Neil Postman

  Ideas, Television, Curriculum

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• Look out your window, and I'll be gone. You're the reason I'm a-traveling on.

  Bob Dylan

  Letting Go, Looks, Gone

  Song: Don't Think Twice, It's All Right, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963

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• Because you lack a noble and successful past is no reason why you should lack a noble and successful future.

  Thomas Dreier

  Perseverance, Successful, Past

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• Each climber loses one finger or toe once in a while. This is a small but important reason for Polish climbers success. Western climbers haven't lost as many fingers or toes.

  Wanda Rutkiewicz

  Climbing, Important, Toes

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• Rise early. Fix a time-table to which you must try to keep. One seldom regrets having made an early start, but one always regrets having set off too late; first for reasons of safety-the adage 'it is later than you think is very true in the mountains-but also because of the strange beauty of the moment: the day comes to replace the night, the peaks gradually lighten, it is the hour of mystery but also of hope. Setting off by lantern-light, witnessing the birth of a new day as one climbs to meet the sun, this is a wonderful experience

  Gaston Rebuffat

  Regret, Thinking, Night

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• We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us - to advertise what we wear them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of suppressed vanity; a pretense that we desire gorgeous colors and the graces of harmony and form; and we put them on to propagate that lie and back it up.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Vanity, Color

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.17, St. Martin's Press

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• Is it acting a true vocation?... I say it is a gift...And fame? Neither sought nor expected... still confounds and amazes and disturbs. Whatever the reason... I am so very delighted that it did happen... I would not have missed it for the world.

  Ruth Cracknell

  Art, Acting, World

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• One big reason I do what I do is there's no two days alike. It's not work for me. It's my life. My passion.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Passion, Two, Bigs

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