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• If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.

  Donald Davidson

  Behaviour, Utterance, Way

  "Meaning and Understanding". Book by Herman Parret and ‎Jacques Bouveresse, p. 186, "Radical interpretation", 1981.

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• Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really fault someone for saying, 'What I'm doing right now works, so there's no reason to change it.'

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Independent, Writing, Faults

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• There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Law, Privilege

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• There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there's one responsibility that you must never delegate. You, and no one but you, must investigate whether an adviser is trustworthy and charges reasonable fees.

  Benjamin Graham

  Responsibility, Investing, Shame

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• There's really no reason to rehash something that you've already seen.

  James Wan

  Reason

  "Interview: James Wan, Leigh Whannell Talk ‘Insidious’ & Classic Horror". Interview with Rob Frappier, screenrant.com. March 13, 2011.

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• I'm not mad at anybody. I'm not being forced out. It is what it is. I have no reason to lie.

  Mike Hargrove

  Lying, Mad, Reason

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• Courtesy is doing that which nothing under the sun makes you do but human kindness. Courtesy springs from the heart; if the mind prompts the action, there is a reason; if there be a reason, it is not courtesy, for courtesy has no reason. Courtesy is good will, and good will is prompted by the heart full of love to be kind. Only the generous man is truly courteous. He gives freely without a thought of receiving anything in return.

  B. C. Forbes

  Kindness, Spring, Heart

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• For better or worse, editing is what editors are for; and editing is selection and choice of material. That editors newspaper or broadcast can and do abuse this power is beyond doubt, but that is no reason to deny the discretion Congress provided.

  Warren E. Burger

  Editing, Editors, Choices

  Warren E. Burger (1984). “Significant Supreme Court Opinions of the Honorable Warren E. Burger: Chief Justice of the United States”

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• Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Names, Sound, Reason

  Evelyn Waugh (2002). “The loved one: an Anglo-American tragedy”

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• But don't get me wrong. As far as a man and a woman is concerned, I'm awfully happy there's a thing called sex. It's an extra something God gave us. I see no reason why it shouldn't be in pictures. Healthy, lusty sex is wonderful.

  John Wayne

  Sex, Men, Healthy

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• An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local and temporary bias. There is no reason to suppose that any one culture has seized upon an eternal sanity and will stand in history as a solitary solution of the human problem. Even the next generation knows better. Our only scientific course is to consider our own culture, so far as we are able, as one example among innumerable others of the variant configurations of human culture.

  Ruth Benedict

  Example, Generations, Culture

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• We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has it abysses, those abysses belong to us; are dangers at hand, we must try to love them.... Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Princess, Dragons

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “Fear Of The Inexplicable”

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• If you have loans, the first thing you want to do is say, "Okay, look I have a credit card, if I really need to borrow, I have this emergency money that I can get, but for now there is no reason for me to keep cash at zero percent interest rate and at the same time, pay all of this money out. So, I think people need to figure out quickly how to pay loans and how much cash they should really keep.

  Dan Ariely

  Zero, Thinking, People

  "A conversation with Dan Ariely, Author of Predictably Irrational". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• I can conceive of no reason for all this administration of the higher to the lower, unless it be for the purpose of advancing our Father's children along the lines of eternal progression.

  B. H. Roberts

  Children, Father, Purpose

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• I think the thing that I have learned is that a bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience, but you have to be very honest at every single stage with the person about how you've been hurt, and hopefully they will be supportive about whatever it is that you have to go through. Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.

  Anne Hathaway

  Heartbreak, Hurt, Bad Relationship

  "Anne Hathaway: 'That was a bad relationship!'" by Elaine Lipworth, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 20, 2010.

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• There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl.

  H. G. Wells

  Believe, Men, Order

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• There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization.

  George Will

  Thinking, Addiction, Drug

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• Integrity means that if our private life were suddenly exposed, we'd have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means that our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.

  Billy Graham

  Integrity, Mean, Life Is

  Billy Graham (2007). “The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World”, p.189, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The Prime Minister, shortly after she came into office, received a sobriquet as the 'Iron Lady'. It arose in the context of remarks which she made about defence against the Soviet Union and its allies; but there was no reason to suppose that the Right Honourable Lady did not welcome and, indeed, take pride in that description. In the next week or two this House, the nation and the Right Honourable Lady herself, will learn of what metal she is made.

  Enoch Powell

  Pride, Next Week, Two

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• Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Atheist, Morality, Reason

  Ravi Zacharias (2004). “The Real Face of Atheism”, p.98, Baker Books

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• Sin is to a nature what blindness is to an eye. The blindness of an evil or defect which is a witness to the fact that the eye was created to see the light and, hence, the very lack of sight is the proof that the eye was meant... to be the one particularly capable of seeing the light. Were it not for this capacity, there would be no reason to think of blindness as a misforture.

  Saint Augustine

  Eye, Thinking, Light

  Saint Augustine (2008). “The City of God, Books XVII–XXII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 24)”, p.417, CUA Press

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• [In politics,] when there is no reason to speak, there is a reason not to speak.

  David Frum

  Speak, Reason

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• Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the single, simple human life that we all more or less lead, with its crude elementals of nurture and appetite, love and competition, the sunshine of well-being and the inevitable night of death. We each live this tale. Fiction has no reason to be embarrassed about telling the same story again and again, since we all, with infinite variations, experience the same story.

  John Updike

  Home, Sunshine, Simple

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• America is the brokest country in history. We owe more money than anyone has ever owed anyone. And Obama and Reid say relax, that's no reason not to spend more - because the world hasn't yet concluded we have no intention of paying it back. When they do, the dollar will collapse.

  Mark Steyn

  Country, America, Relax

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• I didn't watch one tape on Pacquiao. There is no reason to study him. He's not at this level.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Watches, Tape, Levels

  "Floyd Mayweather says delays just made fight with Manny Pacquiao bigger" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2015.

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