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• I had never been able to believe that God would give us poor frail humans only one chance at making it -- that we would be assigned to some kind of hell because we failed during one experience of mortal life. ... So the concepts of karma and reincarnation made logical sense to me.

  Jane Goodall

  Karma, Believe, Giving

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• I used to say that, as Solicitor General, I made three arguments of every case. First came the one that I planned-as I thought, logical, coherent, complete. Second was the one actually presented-interrupted, incoherent, disjointed, disappointing. The third was the utterly devastating argument that I thought of after going to bed that night.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Night, Law, Bed

  Lecture before State Bar of California, San Francisco, Cal., 23 Aug. 1951

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• I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.

  Victor Serge

  Might, Argument, Blank

  Victor Serge (2011). “The Case of Comrade Tulayev”, p.19, New York Review of Books

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• The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leadership, Past, Visions Of The Future

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• ...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.

  David Rockefeller

  Government, Entity, Seems

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• The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the method of mathematical reasoning. The former is just the collection of selected data; the latter enables one to infer results about experiments that have not been performed. There is no logical reason why the second method should be possible at all, but one has found in practice that it does work and meets with reasonable success.

  Paul Dirac

  Math, Practice, Data

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• Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to the inevitable. And Tarrou, Rieux, and their friends might give one answer or another, but its conclusion was always the same, their certitude that a fight must be put up, in this way or that, and there must be no bowing down... There was nothing admirable about this attitude; it was merely logical.

  Albert Camus

  Attitude, Fighting, Giving

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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• Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, [telescope] which he pertinaciously refuses to do. Why are you not here? what shouts of laughter we should have at this glorious folly! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa laboring before the grand duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky.

  Galileo Galilei

  Laughter, Philosophy, Science

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• The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Clarification, Objects

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “The Tractatus According to Its Own Form”, p.76, Lulu.com

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• I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.

  Richard Ford

  Mind, Orderly

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• The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Children, Stories, World

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• The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.

  George Hamilton

  Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are things that I won't do on the radio. I mean, the next logical question is, what won't you do. I say, well, you know, you've got to find out when you're on the air.

  Howard Stern

  Mean, Air, Radio

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• If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.

  Francis Crick

  Foundation, Doe, Good And Bad

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• It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces.

  Jose Carreras

  Pieces

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• So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.

  Lee Child

  Jobs, Real, Book

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• The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Inquiry, Philosopher, Method

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• My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age.

  Brian Austin Green

  Mother, Dad, Real

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• Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Office, Debt, Facts

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• As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.

  Cees Nooteboom

  Life, Fashion, Moving

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• It's just a logical guess that they are very very wise to put someone from the old series in it, and if you had to choose, it would be a very difficult decision.

  Andreas Katsulas

  Wise, Decision, Would Be

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• We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate.

  Eleanor Brown

  Sister, Book, Order

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• They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, Logical, oh responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical...

  Roger Hodgson

  Education, Cynical, Intellectual

  "Logical Song". Song by Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies, March 1979.

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• This view [of the infinite], which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly I am the very first in history to take this position so explicitly, with all of its logical consequences, I know for sure that I shall not be the last!

  Georg Cantor

  Views, Ontology, Lasts

  "Journey Through Genius". Book by William Dunham, 1990.

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• I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves with the things they do, people who can explain all their actions with perfect logical consistency. At least it's not possible for me to write that sort of novel.

  Tom Perrotta

  Writing, People, Perfect

  "The Exchange: Tom Perrotta" by Sarah Larson, www.newyorker.com. September 21, 2011.

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