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• We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

  Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

  Christian, Mother, Nature

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• I see no reason why 1931 should not be an extremely good year.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Years, Reason Why, Great Depression

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• Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had.

  Anna Quindlen

  Inspirational Life, Writing, Wrinkles

  Anna Quindlen (2009). “Being Perfect”, p.36, Random House

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• There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write.

  Gloria Estefan

  Writing, Reason

  Reuters News Agency, October 10, 2005.

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• Virtually all of life's ills boil down to mindlessness. If you can understand someone else's perspective, then there's no reason to be angry at them, envy them, steal from them.

  Ellen Langer

  Wise, Envy, Perspective

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• But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.

  Agnes Smedley

  May, Matter, Reason Why

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• There is therefore no reason to put a limit to evolutionary possibility by taking our present organization or status of existence as final. The animal is a laboratory in which Nature has worked out man; man may very well be a laboratory in which she wills to work out superman, to disclose the soul as a divine being, to evolve a divine nature.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Animal, Men, Organization

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• One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.

  Neil Young

  Past, Next, Reason

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• You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Giving, Goes On

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• The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.

  Keith Haring

  Reason, Paint

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.126, Penguin

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• I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.

  Colin Firth

  Cutting, Swimming, Thinking

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• Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's an artefact from times long gone.

  Carl Sagan

  Play, Nurse, Long

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.

  Francis Chan

  Blessed, Grace, Reason

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• Australia objects to the mini-skirt not on moral but on economic grounds. Australians are no prudes and the lovely, healthy, sporty Australian girls have no reason to hide their knees and thighs. However, the mini-skirt is disastrous for the wool-trade.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Girl, Humor

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• There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". Language can be used to transmit information, but it also serves many other purposes: to establish relations among people, to express or clarify thought, for play, for creative mental activity, to gain understanding, and so on. In my opinion, there is no reason to accord privileged status to one or the other of these modes.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Communication, Play

  "Language and Responsibility". Book by Noam Chomsky, chomsky.info. 1977.

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• I see no reason that a golf course cannot be played in 18 birdies. Just because no one has ever done that doesn't mean it can't be done.

  Ben Hogan

  Mean, Golf, Done

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• But fear - panic - knows no reason. It brings into being overnight the things that it fears. It is the greatest torment of humanity. Fear is, in short, the devil. It causes most of the sin, disaster, disease and misery of the world. It is the ravening lion roaming the earth seeking whom it may...devour. The only refuge is in the knowledge that it has no power other than the power you give it.

  Robert Collier

  Giving, Humanity, Devil

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• Because you lack a noble and successful past is no reason why you should lack a noble and successful future.

  Thomas Dreier

  Perseverance, Successful, Past

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• Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.

  Lin Yutang

  Play, Reason, Characteristics

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• I can honestly say that probably 95% of the things I was afraid of, it turned out I had no reason to be. So drop fear by the wayside. Just... let it go. Then make way for a surprising tomorrow.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Let It Go, Way, Tomorrow

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Nov 14, 2016

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• So many people shy away from using color in their homes for fear of getting it wrong...But ignorance and fear are no reason to live in a bland box.

  Jonathan Adler

  Home, Ignorance, Color

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• There is no reason to repeat bad history.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Inspirational, Reason, Repeats

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• Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see no reason why I should not have the same thought, the same power of expression, to-morrow. What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world; but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages. Alas for this infirm faith, this will not strenuous, this vast ebb of a vast flow! I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, Nature, Wall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.178, Penguin

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• Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.

  Tecumseh

  Lonely, Morning, Lying

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• Be happy for no reason, like a child.

  Deepak Chopra

  Children, Reason

  "How to Be Happy Like a Child" by Toan Lam, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2012.

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