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• A termination of one's life is necessary in the scheme of things to provide a logical reason for unselfishness. . . . The fact that there is an end to one's life compels one to take an interest in things that will continue to live after one is dead.

  Paul Dirac

  Facts, Life Is, Reason

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• Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Thinking, Worry, Irrational Fear

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• What distinguishes a human being from a computer? The ability to add up numbers? The ability to understand language? The ability to be logical? It is, of course, none of the above. It is the ability to play. Computers cannot have fun. They cannot fantasize. They cannot dream, they cannot experience emotion or summon intuition. These rare, precious qualities come naturally to every child on this earth yet they tend to be seen, by well meaning adults, as faults, foibles and failings. In pushing tiny toddlers to 'perform', we rob them of the ability to imagine.

  Jonathan Cainer

  Dream, Children, Fun

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• What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?

  James Joyce

  Kind, Embrace, Liberation

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916)

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• Puzzles lead to logical answers; mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality that is just too great to take in properly.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Reality, Answers, Limits

  Alister E. McGrath (2014). “The Living God: A Guide for Study and Devotion”, p.97, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Another priest said,"Is it true you've said you'll believe in any god whose existence can be proved by logical debate?""Yes."Vimes had a feeling about the immediate future and took a few steps away from Dorfl."But the gods plainly do exist," said a priest."It Is Not Evident."A bolt of lightning lanced down through the clouds and hit Dorfl's helmet. There was a sheet of flame and then a trickling noise. Dorfl's molten armour formed puddles around his white-hot feet."I Don't Call That Much Of An Argument," said Dorfl calmly, from somewhere in the clouds of smoke.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, White, Feet

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• Autism's an important part of who I am, but I'm a college professor and an animal scientist first. And I wouldn't want to change 'cause I like the logical way I think.

  Temple Grandin

  College, Thinking, Animal

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• I'm surprised when I see someone doing the logical, commonsense thing: Walk facing the oncoming traffic.

  Robert James Thomson

  Traffic, Walks

  "Dr. Gridlock". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• Radio, or at least the kind of radio we're proposing to do, can cut through that. It can reach people who would otherwise never hear your work, and of course I find that very notion inspiring. Radio stories are powerful because the human voice is powerful. It has been and will continue to be the most basic element of storytelling. As a novelist (and I should note that working my novel is the first thing I do in the morning and the very last thing I do before I sleep), shifting into this new medium is entirely logical. It's still narrative, only with different tools.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Morning, Powerful, Sleep

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Usually, I think it's best to play the song for them once and have them mix it up on the spot, because when the logical mind gets too involved, I think it kills a lot of magic. I just think the subconscious mind is so much smarter, and unfortunately, people do not trust their subconscious. A lot of people just don't access to all of that, the secret genius that's inside of them. And it's so much easier to get it out of a musician if you don't give them a chance to overthink.

  Larkin Grimm

  Song, Thinking, Play

  "Swinging Modern Sounds #35: The Location Of The Soul". Interview with Rick Moody, therumpus.net. April 20, 2012.

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• I was lucky that I was getting exposed to a lot of different kinds of films, and I was liking them all. So it seemed logical to me that you could - as in the style of the studio directors of the 30s and 40s - jump from one genre to the next, with the same satisfaction.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Style, Satisfaction, Next

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step. Proofs are excellent lessons in reasoning. Without logic and reasoning, you are dependent on jumping to conclusions or - worse - having empty opinions.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Thinking, Jumping, Lessons

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• Importance, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder and that there is nothing inherently "logical" about the preference of users in looking for one component rather than another of a compound heading.

  Hans H Wellisch

  Eye, Preference, Beholder

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• I never know what my next move will be in Hollywood. It's such an unpredictable town. People get jaded and lost and I've been able to stay a float. I think the next logical step in my career would be to start my own filmmaking empire like (Harvey Weinstein) and (Bob Weinstein) did so many years ago. I think if only the unions weren't so strict in Boston, I'd set up shop there and make films of a certain quality you don't see represented these days. I'm full of ideas and dreams.

  Ben Affleck

  Dream, Moving, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts. . . . Humanity. . . is building its composite brain beneath our eyes. May it not be that tomorrow, through the logical and biological deepening of the movement drawing it together, it will find its heart, without which the ultimate wholeness of its power of unification can never be achieved?

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Heart, Eye, Drawing

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• When you're stressed out or nervous, the logical side of your brain goes out the window and you have no idea what's happening. But, that is a lot of fun. It feels like you are an action hero.

  Katia Winter

  Fun, Hero, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• The only logical answer to the question of why Elijah needed to pray is to imply that God has chosen to work through people. Even when it is the Lord himself initiating something, earnestly desiring to do it, He still needs us to ask.

  Dutch Sheets

  People, Needs, Answers

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• For the moment a lot of attention is given to economic concerns, and these problems at hand easily eclipse all others. But the remedies proposed for these problems all come out of outmoded ways of thinking... The remedy? Compassion. The logical feeling that we find in ourselves if we search deeply enough that has to be exercised toward all other living creatures.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Compassion, Hands

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• One of the great logical puzzles is how a woman is always like her mother but never like her sister.

  Robert Breault

  Mother, Like Her, Puzzles

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• Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.

  Edward de Bono

  Ideas, Creative, Able

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• There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Eggs, Flying, Connections

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• As a citizen I felt appalled that we WENT TO WAR over faulty information - that felt false or at least "stretched" from the first time they started to push the idea that Iraq and 9/11 were connected, though they didn't seem to be and there was no logical reason for thinking they were. It's like your neighbors the Smiths burned your house down, and then the next day you retaliated by burning down the Jones' house.

  Christopher Durang

  War, Thinking, Ideas

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• I think of myself as an experimentalist even though much of my music sounds logical and normal, in a sense.

  Paul Lansky

  Thinking, Sound, Normal

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and openness; lightness and strength so completely balanced and logical that it is a new integrity.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Integrity, America, Grace

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Messi is undoubtedly a gifted footballer, like Maradona and Pele, and he's playing for the best club side in the world at the moment. He's successful and he's winning trophies, so it's only logical that he'll be voted the best player in the world.

  Oliver Kahn

  Successful, Winning, Player

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