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You will find that reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but that passions and weaknesses commonly usurp its seat, and rule in its stead.

10 years ago, I would've host Saturday Night Live. But to me, the show has declined. For some reason, humor isn't what it was. It just, to me, it's not as funny as it was, not as sharply satirical.

A bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience.

[9/11] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it.

97 percent of the scientists who wrote articles in peer-reviewed journals believe that human activity is the fundamental reason we are seeing climate change.

A big reason I wanted to move [from North Carolina] to New York was to get rid of my car. But honestly, I miss just riding around the hood and having some friends get blunted and playing music for them.

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.

A Conformist is a man who declares, "It's true because others believe it" - but an Individualist is NOT a man who declares, "It's true because I believe it." An Individual declares, "I believe it because I see in reason that it is true.

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual.

Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.

Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus. Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading.

A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.

A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.

A dimly lit tavern, a willing young woman, are some of the reasons I cheat.

Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration.

Adrenaline dulls reason; panic kills it.

[A God-thing is] when something happens in your life, and you look at it and can't explain how or why it happened, but you know there's a reason for it. You know that God is doing something in your life, and it changes you. There's no other way to explain it except to see it as a God thing.

Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity.

After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too.

A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

Adrenaline is the reason I do what I do.

a few bad apples is no reason not to visit the orchard.

A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances.

A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.

A Good Soldier is one of my favorite novels, for various reasons. But the class question is a good one, because it's not always easy to empathize with privileged people.

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Ah, this is fine," he cried triumphantly, holding up a small medallion on a chain. He dusted it off, and engraved on one side were the words "WHY NOT?" "That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.

A goldfish is reason enough for living, if someone needs a reason.

Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.

Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore.

Albums aren't even selling anymore and there's a reason for that. Record companies are just signing single and ring tone deals and it doesn't seem like they're focusing on albums.

A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty

... a large portion of those who demand woman suffrage are persons who have not been trained to reason, and are chiefly guided by their generous sensibilities.

A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied

All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse, a scintillation of the whole truth.

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.

All human beings have all of the intelligences. But we differ, for both genetic and experiential reasons, in our profile of intelligences at any moment.

All marriages have a time limit if you enter them for the wrong reasons. Marriage doesn't get easier...it only gets harder. If you marry someone hoping it will improve things, you might as well set your timer the second you say, 'I do.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.

All my dreams are coming true all across the board for some reason.

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.