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The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn't know how to ask.

The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. ... Notice that this is the limit test for credulity. . . . It's the limit case for likelihood.

The heart has its reasons; it's the mind that's suspect.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal

The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder.

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not the highest Reason, but higher than reason; not the highest Goodness, but higher than goodness.

The intensely felt subjective image is always the reason for making a first rate picture.

Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in vain to conjecture; for what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain.

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.

The key is to be happy for no reason. Just be love. Just be it. Just be happy no matter what. Just share your love and know that like it's all ok.

The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party.

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.

The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

The latest indication we have is that Amado is experiencing some delay in getting his visa. We understand that and we can accept that as a plausible reason for him not to be here.

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

The least difficult thing a foreign missionary has to learn is the language; the part of her work which she has the most reason to dread is its responsibility.

The level of trust is extraordinarily low and the level of suspicion extraordinarily high, and with good reason and on both sides. The press has hunkered down for very good reason, because it's being treated like a mushroom.

The longest tyranny that ever sway'd Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle], And made his torch their universal light. So truth, while only one suppli'd the state, Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate.

The lighting changes were definitely the biggest thing and the biggest reason that people don't shoot stop motion outdoors.

The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason.

The loss of reason seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

The love of country is more powerful than reason itself.

The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.

The main reason guys will never admit to having even the teeniest clue about what women really want is because if they did, they'd have to do something about it.

The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.

The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.

The main reason for healing is love.

The main reason nerds are unpopular is that they have other things to think about.

The main reasons for dwelling .. on Hayek's model is simply that it has certain properties, absent from most others, that conform exceptionally well to recent neurobiological evidence on memory and that make it particularly suited to the current discourse.

The majority of players are looking for reasons to fold. I am looking for reasons to play.

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.

The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind.

The more the concept of reason becomes emasculated, the more easily it lends itself to ideological manipulation and to propagation of even the most blatant lies. ... Subjective reason conforms to anything.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.

The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.

The music is the void. And you're the reason why.

Then love of pleasure sways each heart, and we From that no more than from ourselves can fly. Blameless when govern'd well. But where it errs Extravagant, and wildly leads to ill, Public or private, there its curbing pow'r Cool reason must exert.

The number one reason conversations stall out is that you are not listening well enough.