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• The whole relationship between a writer's spiritual/emotional condition and the kind of wordstuff and form-making that's going on in his work is an interesting one. When I was an undergraduate, there was a glib notion around that there was no reason to suppose a bad man could be a good writer.

  Seamus Heaney

  Spiritual, Men, Emotional

  Source: www.questia.com

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• You see somebody like me, as young as I was at the time, driving around the inner city of Newark, and to them [police] it doesn't make sense. I've been illegally searched [and had] my car illegally searched. [I've] been handcuffed for no reason. You get in enough of those situations.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Cities, Car, Police

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• There's no reason why one need not look at the content of education just as one is expanding the availability of school, because it doesn't cost more money to get them [a] better education. It requires better textbooks, it requires a vision, it requires a determination, but it's not very expensive to do that anyway.

  Amartya Sen

  Determination, School, Availability

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There are some particular moral truths that I believe we have access to (such as the one not to inflict pain on a sentient being for no reason).

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Pain, Believe, Moral

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Few things are more negative than thinking positive for no reason.

  Dov Davidoff

  Thinking, Negative, Think Positive

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Dec 01, 2011

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• I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.

  Barry Commoner

  Reason, Shirts, Irrational

  "At 90, an Environmentalist From the '70s Still Has Hope". Interview With Thomas Vinciguerra, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2007.

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• If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

  Edward Hopper

  Art, Creative, Would Be

  Ray Spangenburg, Kit Moser, Edward Hopper, Diane Moser (2002). “Edward Hopper: The Life of an Artist”, Enslow Pub Incorporated

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• I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.

  Salman Rushdie

  School, Adventure, World

  "A translated man". Interview with James Campbell, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2006.

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• There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

  Colonel Sanders

  Death, Business, Humorous

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

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• You don't have to wear fur. They make such great fakes. There's no reason to kill an animal.

  Grace Slick

  Animal, Fake, Fur

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• There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.

  Amy Tan

  Fate, Trying, Reason

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.130, Penguin

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• The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest

  David James Duncan

  Hurt, Lying, Fall

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• I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.

  Frederick Douglass

  Land, Looks, Calling

  Frederick Douglass (2009). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic”, p.132, Penguin

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• To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Matter, Life Is

  Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.21, Vintage

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• But, – and there it is, – we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move. If it were not for this, life would be dead. It is because of this life that is in you that you dream of your immortality.

  Jack London

  Dream, Moving, Would Be

  Jack London (2015). “Jack London The Dover Reader”, p.279, Courier Corporation

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• There is no reason why you should be bored when you can be otherwise. But if you find yourself sitting in the hedgerow with nothing but weeds, there is no reason for shutting your eyes and seeing nothing, instead of finding what beauty you may in the weeds. To put it cynically, life is too short to waste it in drawing blanks. Therefore, it is up to you to find as many pictures to put on your blank pages as possible.

  Emily Post

  Weed, Life Is Too Short, Eye

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school. Caught in the most curiously depressing circumstances. For months I'd been stuck, unable to take one step in any new direction. The world kept moving on; I alone was at a standstill. In the autumn, everything took on a desolate cast, the colors swiftly fading before my eyes. The sunlight, the smell of the grass, the faintest patter of rain, everything got on my nerves.

  Haruki Murakami

  Depressing, Moving, Rain

  "A Wild Sheep Chase". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1982.

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• English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a language with which it has precious little in common. In Latin, to take one example, it is not possible to split an infinitive. So in English, the early authorities decided, it should not be possible to split an infinitive either. But there is no reason why we shouldn't, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans.

  Bill Bryson

  Latin, Coffee, Writing

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• You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

  David Shore

  Friendship, Reason, Pleasure

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• Anyone who thinks they're happy should really see a doctor, because there is no reason to be happy.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, Doctors, Rock N Roll

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• There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.

  Robert Frost

  Peace, Reason, Should

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• I don't mind being an advocate for weed. It's not as bad as tobacco, alcohol or firearms, for that matter. There's no reason it shouldn't be legalized. You can make all kinds of stuff out of hemp. I think the cure for cancer's probably in cannabis-who knows?

  Method Man

  Weed, Cancer, Thinking

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• In a few Zen monasteries, every monk has to start his morning with laughter, and has to end his night with laughter - the first thing and the last thing! You try it. . . For no reason! Because there is no reason. Simply, you are again there, still alive - it is a miracle!

  Rajneesh

  Morning, Laughter, Night

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• If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion.

  Maxine Waters

  Crazy, Stupid, People

  "Was It a 'Riot,' a 'Disturbance' or a 'Rebellion'?" by Swati Pandey, www.latimes.com. April 29, 2007.

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• Unlike in school, in life you don't have to come up with all the right answers. You can ask the people around you for help - or even ask them to do the things you don't do well. In other words, there is almost no reason not to succeed if you take the attitude of 1) total flexibility - good answers can come from anyone or anywhere (and in fact, as I have mentioned, there are far more good answers 'out there' than there are in you) and 2) total accountability: regardless of where the good answers come from, it's your job to find them.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Jobs, Attitude

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