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"You only live once" is also an equally compelling reason not to do something

You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.

Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.

You're always looking for the ultimate. It's kind of like journeying to Ixtlan. You're never going to get there, but that is no reason not to try.

You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.

You're certainly not alone in your megalomania. Everyone feels that way-and for good reason. Because it's true!

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

You're filled with so much life. Is there any reason why all of us are not full of life?

You're here for a reason and it's not to hoard a lot of physical stuff.

You're so beautiful but that's not why I love you, I'm not sure you know this but the reason I love you is you

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

Your family is depending on you. No better reason to bring all your game all the time.

You're sort of forced to include this aspect of culture into your life whether it be for social reasons or business purposes.

You’re the reason I breathe

You're trying to make music, and then at the end of it you give reasons for everything.

Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God.

Your music sounds better on the radio, for some reason. It's an amazing feeling. I hope it never goes away.

You saw me vacillating between error and truth, loving them equally because unable to distinguish the one from the other; the hour marked out by God for my enlightenment has come: He has shown me the powerlessness of reason, and the necessity of faith.

You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.

You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

You've got to be pretty confident that you're good. If I do a show and for whatever reason no one laughs, I'll be like, 'Wow, those people are weird'.

You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct. True conservatism is only possible through knowledge and reason.

You would be better off having nobody than the wrong somebody. (On marrying for the wrong reasons.)

You will train always for a hundred terrific reasons. Quit and it will be for no good reason at all.

4.10 ANGER Anger makes a dull man witty, But keeps him poor in eternity, A man shrinks when he is angry, And grows in tranquil serenity. [90] - 4 When anger flow in the body, You lose your temper – your folly, When distempered – a tragedy, You lose reason – a calamity. [91] - 4

A body of ten ounces raised in any scale may serve as a proof, that the counterbalancing weight exceeds ten ounces; but can never afford a reason that it exceeds a hundred.

A being of volitional consciousness has no automatic course of behavior. He needs a code of values to guide his actions. ‘Value’ is that which one acts to gain and keep, 'virtue’ is the action by which one gains and keeps it. ‘Value’ presupposes an answer to the question: of value to whom and for what? 'Value’ presupposes a standard, a purpose and the necessity of action in the face of an alternative. Where there are no alternatives, no values are possible.

After all you didn't answer "Why?", why you close and reject it... "Not Interested", doesn't sound like a reason, does it?

Abraham Lincoln quoted the Scriptures in an 1858 speech to the Illinois Republican Convention. He said, “ A house divided against itself cannot stand.” That, I fear, is where diversity leads. If by that term we refer to love and tolerance for peoples who are different from one another, it has great validity for us. But if by diversity we mean that all of us have been given reason to resent one another. Having no common values, heritage, commitment, or hope, then we are a nation in serious trouble.

After you have made the discovery of your own significance, you would then be able to find the reason to stay alive.

Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.

A determined man, a man who believes himself grossly abused, does not listen to reason

A faith without some doubts is like a human body without any antibodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent to ask hard questions about why they believe as they do will find themselves defenseless against either the experience of tragedy or the probing questions of a smart skeptic. A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she has failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection. Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts — not only their own but their friends' and neighbors'. It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them. Only if you struggle long and hard with objections to your faith will you be able to provide the grounds for your beliefs to skeptics, including yourself, that are plausible rather than ridiculous or offensive. And, just as important for our current situation, such a process will lead you, even after you come to a position of strong faith, to respect and understand those who doubt.

After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy.

Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.

Paine was a grand fellow — high—with the most splendid sense of justice. But he was a reasoner — not warm — not letting out the natural palpitating passion... which perhaps he didn't have. But I see all that and more in Ingersoll. His imagination flames and plays up, up, up. It is a grand height! And he has so sharp a blade, too; is many-sided, gifted for great effects in different spheres. I don't suppose we ever had a man here so well adapted to that work. {Whitman's thought on Thomas Paine and his good friend, Robert Ingersoll}

A lie for a good reason is better than a truth that destroys.

All Religions have this in common, that they are an outrage to common sense for they are pieced together out of a variety of elements, some of which seem so unworthy, sordid and at odds with man’s reason, that any strong and vigorous intelligence laughs at them... The human intellect is only capable of tackling mediocre subjects: it disdains petty subjects, and is startled by large ones. There is no reason to be surprised if it finds any religion hard to accept at first, for all are deficient in the mediocre and the commonplace, nor that it should require skill to induce belief. For the strong intellect laughs at religion, while the weak and superstitious mind marvels at it but is easily scandalized by it.

Allow intelligent design into science textbooks, lecture halls, and laboratories, and the cost to the frontier of scientific discovery—the frontier that drives the economies of the future—would be incalculable. I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don't understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before.

All love is blind to reason, and maybe that's why some people are so strong.

All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world — two snake pits.

All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner moments.

All that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; all that which destroys it is the evil.

Always best to start with violence and attempt communication second. People reacted more favorably when they knew you would snuff a few lives to get what you wanted... or for no reason whatsoever.

All truth is double, and perhaps multiple; absolute reason is as dangerous as absolute faith; reason also has its madness

An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.

A man actually has two Gods. The one, created him and the other, he created. Nature is not the first God but the first God exists in and as a part of the nature; a man with the help his reason creates a God against the forces of nature that are perceived to be as threat, hence the second God. The second God is the property of an individual mind that created it. A child has no reason and hence it has no second God; but it has the first God not yet known to it because the fear is not felt by the child! The first God is felt and known due to the fear ingrained in the instinct and the second God is the surrender and prayer brought out by the reason!

A man cannot serve two masters: so it is either reason or the scriptures. - On Religion