Reason Quotes - Page 38

• The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote. If children were forced to learn about the Constitution, about how government works, about how this nation came into being, about taxes and about how government forever threatens the cause of liberty perhaps we wouldn't see so many foolish ideas coming out of the mouths of silly old men.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Country, Children, Silly

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• The main reason to be opposed to political control of smoking is to keep power -even the smallest and silliest kind of power - out of the hands of ... members of a dangerous class -the class that knows what's good for us better than we do.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Hands, Class

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• The only reason for a government service is precisely to provide financial support for an operation that is otherwise unsustainable, or else there would be no point in the government's involvement at all.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Government, Support, Would Be

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• One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something that makes no sense, devious reasons are imagined by conspiracy theorists, when in fact it may be due to plain old ignorance and incompetence.

  Thomas Sowell

  Ignorance, Government, People

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.317, Hoover Press

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• See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners.

  Paul Begala

  Party, Sleep, Thinking

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• What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?

  Shimon Peres

  Land, Important Choices, Israel

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• I chose to start my world tour in Israel for a very specific and important reason. As you know, the Middle East and all the conflicts that occur here and that have been occurring for thousands of years... They have to stop... You can't be a fan of mine and not want peace in the world.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Israel, Years, Important

  "Madonna Kicks off MDNA Tour in Tel Aviv" by Anthony Castellano, abcnews.go.com. June 1, 2012.

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• The world cannot live at peace without the United Nations. For this reason: it creates a reasonable guarantee that all this change in the world, these tremendous political and economic developments, can be channelized, kept orderly. The United Nations is a mold that keeps the hot metal from spilling over.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Peace, Guarantees That, Political

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• There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up.

  Scott Stapp

  Moving, Player, One Direction

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• James Brown is the reason I play guitar.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Guitar, Play, Brown

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• I guess, and it may be a flaw, that I think about rhythm more [than anything else]. I'm always wanting to find something unusual. I've started to try and write more traditionally, but for whatever reason, I tend toward trying to find something that sounds more like a pattern to me.

  Dave Matthews

  Writing, Thinking, Guitar

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• On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.

  Tommy Shaw

  Real, Keys, Guitar

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• If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.

  Jerry Garcia

  Funny, Inspiring, Assuming

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• Any journey in life, if not done for human reasons of understanding and love, would be a very empty and lonely one.

  Tim Robbins

  Meaningful, Lonely, Journey

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• Scientists may study mainly matter but they cannot ignore the human mind, or consciousness: spiritual practitioners may be engaging mainly in developing the mind but they cannot completely ignore their physical needs. It is for this reason that I have always stressed the importance of combining both mental and the material approach to achieving happiness for humankind.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Mind, Stressed

  Dalai Lama, Herbert Benson, Robert Thurman, Howard Gardner, Daniel Goleman (2012). “MindScience: An East-West Dialogue”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they were during the First World War. The public sees no reason to get involved in foreign adventures, killing, and torture. So you have to whip them up. And to whip them up you have to frighten them.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Adventure, Media

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.30, Seven Stories Press

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• I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

  Laura Bush

  Thinking, Media, America

  "Laura Bush on U.S. Political Divide". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. August 5, 2004.

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• The only reason I'd ever get a sex change operation is to see what it's like to be right all the time.

  Brian Wilson

  Sex, Funny Women, Operations

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• It is for these reasons that I believe we must expand day-care centers and provide other assistance which I have recommended to the Congress. At present, the total facilities of all the licensed day-care centers in the Nation can take care of only 185,000 children. Nearly 500,000 children under 12 must take care of themselves while their mothers work. This, it seems to me, is a formula for disaster.

  John F. Kennedy

  Mother, Children, Believe

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963".

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• No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too.

  Martina Hingis

  Beauty, Sports, Believe

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• We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.

  Vince McMahon

  Listening, Pulse, Events

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• I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.

  Ringo Starr

  Band, Reason Why, Broke Up

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• I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.

  Dana Hill

  Hiking, Mountain, Wonder

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• To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

  Joseph Joubert

  Journey, Hiking, Arguing

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• The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.

  Dick Wolf

  Change, Support Systems, Fundamentals

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