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• If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

  Roman Polanski

  Children, Passion, Fruit

  The Independent, May 12, 1991.

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• Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Dream, Work Out, World

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• If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent governor of your own party in your home state is not the next logical step in a political life.

  Marco Rubio

  Running, Party, Home

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• Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophical, Analysis, Problem

  Bertrand Russell (2017). “Our Knowledge of the External World”, p.20, Jovian Press

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• The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them. An hallucination is not, strictly speaking, manufactured in the brain; it is received by the brain, like any 'real' sense datum, and the patient act in response to this to-him-very-real perception of reality in as logical a way as we do to our sense data. In any way to suppose he only 'thinks he sees it' is to misunderstand totally the experience of psychosis.

  Philip K. Dick

  Wall, Real, Thinking

  Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Vintage

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• You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration.

  Robin McKinley

  Military, Government, Littles

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• Joley likes to be scared, and she can't watch them alone." "I don't know how you can make that sound perfectly logical.

  Christine Feehan

  Sound, Watches, Likes

  Christine Feehan (2012). “Christine Feehan's Drake Sisters Series: Five Novels and a Novella”, p.1262, Penguin

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• You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane. And I think it is. I've had a lot of time to think about that. And what I keep coming back to is [her] dying declaration: 'So you understand that when we increase the number of variables, the axioms themselves never change.'

  Stephen King

  Life, Thinking, Numbers

  "Rage". Book by Stephen King, 1977.

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• A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

  Edward Sapir

  Simplicity, Analysis, Helping

  Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.280, Walter de Gruyter

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• Even logical positivists are capable of love.

  A.J. Ayer

  Capable

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• It is taken for granted that workers should receive their pay partly in kind, in the form of medical care provided by the employer. How come? Why single out medical care? Surely food is no less essential to life than medical care. Why is it not at least as logical for workers to be required to buy their food at the company store as to be required to buy their medical care at the company store?

  Milton Friedman

  Taken, Care, Pay

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• The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Philosophy, Esoteric, Tradition

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.550, Penguin

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• The whole aim of Zen is not to make foolproof statements about experience, but to come to direct grips with reality without the mediation of logical verbalizing.

  Thomas Merton

  Reality, Mediation, Aim

  John C. H. Wu, Jingxiong Wu, Thomas Merton, Kenneth Kraft (2003). “The Golden Age of Zen: Zen Masters of the T'Ang Dynasty”, p.4, World Wisdom, Inc

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• We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Atheism, Claims

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• Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts of us it's stolen

  Jonathan Carroll

  Giving, Friendly, Faces

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “A Child Across the Sky”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they call Wilson 'just a dreamer, not practical'- a year later they rail at him for making his dreams realities. They haven't clear logical ideas on one single subject except a sturdy, stolid opposition to all change. They don't think uneducated people should be highly paid, but they won't see that if they don't pay the uneducated people their children are going to be uneducated too, and we're going round and round in a circle. That- is the great middle class.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Children, Believe

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.996, Simon and Schuster

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• There was something dead in my heart. I tried to figure out what it was by the strength of the smell. I knew that it was not a lion or a sheep or a dog. Using logical deduction, I came to the conclusion that it was a mouse. I had a dead mouse in my heart.

  Richard Brautigan

  Dog, Heart, Sheep

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• Before he (Francis Bacon) came along, people conducted all their arguments through a series of logical fallacies or simply shouting louder than the other guy, or, if they did use facts, they only selected ones that reinforced their prejudices and advanced their ideas.” Oberon replies “don’t they still do that?

  Kevin Hearne

  Ideas, People, Guy

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• Once you cared about a person, it was impossible to be logical about them anymore.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Impossible, New Moon, Persons

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• The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Errors, May

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.67, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Don't be logical. You know I hate that.

  Susan Mallery

  Hate, I Hate, Knows

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• The demons of the Devil don't use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones. If you're rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you're loyal and faithful, they turn those against you. If you're passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears. Your weak weaknesses are no use to them.... They find the strongest weaknesses you didn't know were yours and use those against you.

  Aidan Chambers

  Strong, Emotional, Loyal And Faithful

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• But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Mind, Ironic

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.476, Open Road Media

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• George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day—another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.

  Thomas Hardy

  Dog, Taken, Fate

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.27, 谷月社

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• Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect.

  Paulo Coelho

  Way, Behave

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