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I am going to say something I have never said before and this is the truth. I have no reason to lie to you and God knows I am telling the truth. I think all my success and fame and I have wanted it, I have wanted it because I wanted to be loved. That's all. That's the real truth.

Michael Jackson

Real, Lying, Thinking

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To suppose universal laws of nature capable of being apprehended by the mind and yet having no reason for their special forms, but standing inexplicable and irrational, is hardly a justifiable position. Uniformities are precisely the sort of facts that need to be accounted for. Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Law, Mind, Excellence

"The Architecture of Theories". The Monist, Volume I, No. 2, p. 161, January 1891.

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The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries. In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good about yourself for no reason, real actual people in faraway places have to starve to death.

Mark Steyn

Country, Real, Order

"The Biofuels Debacle". www.nysun.com. April 28, 2008.

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I feel I'm better now than I ever have been. You learn so much as you're doing it. I'm watching tapes and I'll see things that get me annoyed and where I know I can improve. I understand better letting the crowd play more. I've always said it was important for me who I was working with, because I like to kid around a lot. But I've also learned to use my partner better. I'm feeling good. There's no reason to stop.

Marv Albert

Kids, Play, Annoyed

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Don't confuse simple, reasonable honesty with radical silliness. There is no reason to try to articulate blurry feelings or over-explain every detail. The point is to be honest instead of internalizing, not to try to extract juicy confessionals out of everyday life.

Ann Burton

Honesty, Simple, Feelings

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Listen for silence in noisy places; feel at peace in the midst of disturbance; awaken joy when there is no reason.

Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

Silence, Joy, Reason

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Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.

Terence McKenna

Children, Philosophy, Men

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The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. ... Notice that this is the limit test for credulity. . . . It's the limit case for likelihood.

Terence McKenna

Limits, Bangs, Tests

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I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.

Jackie Evancho

Thinking, People, Fans

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Things don't happen for no reason.

Kristen Stewart

Reason, Happens

"Fictional character: Ulysses Everett McGill". "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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When I meet a person that tells me they stopped hooping for no reason, I thank them for opening my door and making it easier.

Behdad Sami

Doors, Reason, Easier

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Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order.

David Mamet

Dad, Home, School

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I have a lot of pot tendencies. I'm always late, I laugh for no reason, I watch Jeopardy! with the sound off and make up my own questions.

Dave Attell

Laughing, Sound, Watches

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If somebody tells me, 'You have to pass that car right there,' I guarantee you I'm going to step up the aggressiveness to a whole other level and that may mean beating and banging. But until it calls for that moment, I'm not expecting to go out there and just beat and bang for no reason.

Jeff Gordon

Mean, Car, Steps

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I'm sick of these congress meetings. There no reason to meet again. As you know, if there's a congress, I usually win it.

Ivan Slavkov

Winning, Sick, Reason

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That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics; all that has survived, and all that has no reason to survive - books you can read without thinking, and books you have to read if you want to think at all.

Anthony Lane

Book, Thinking, Want

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I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. I see no reason for painting but that. If I have anything to offer, it is my emotional contact with the place where I live and the people I do.

Andrew Wyeth

Art, Emotional, Thinking

"Making Art (and History) Personal" By Bob Duggan, bigthink.com.

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When you say, "there's no reason [to hit a woman]" that kills any examination as to how two people ended up at that place. When you say, "there's no reason," you cut out the build-up and you're just left with the act. How you gonna solve it if you don't figure it out?

Bill Burr

Cutting, Two, People

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It was a long time ago. I was talking to a friend about astrology, and he mentioned the Seth books. I'd never heard of them, but I intuitively knew they were important to me. It sounds very romantic, but it really was like that. I took an interest in them right away for no reason.

Francis Dunnery

Book, Talking, Astrology

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Basically, this industry is mostly run by men, and I think women have a harder time...I've had enough of the "Women in Rock" issues of magazines and all of that. There's no reason why we should have our own separate little genre; that's just ridiculous. Besides, what is the genre? I certainly don't fit into the whole "Lilith" thing (thank God), but I am a female musician. And there are enough other great females in music that don't have to fit into it, either.

Princess Superstar

Running, Men, Thinking

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A bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience.

Anne Hathaway

Heartbreak, Bad Love, Reason

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

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The development of artificial intelligence may well imply that man will relinquish his intellectual supremacy in favor of thinking machines. With oceans of time available for future innovation, there seems to be no reason why machines cannot achieve and surpass anything of which the human brain is capable.

Paul Davies

Ocean, Men, Thinking

Paul Davies (2006). “God and the New Physics”, p.244, Penguin UK

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I'm just trying to keep things normal around the house, because there's no reason why things shouldn't be normal.

John McCain

House, Trying, Reason Why

"McCain 'not worried' about his disease, wife says" by Jonathan Karl, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2000.

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Now that we have the line-item veto there is no excuse for Congress to put pork in and no reason for the president not to line-item veto it out.

John McCain

President, Pork, Lines

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There's really no reason for any musician, writer, actor to ever take themselves seriously. If you work in a needle exchange, take yourself seriously. You're doing good work. If you're involved in hostage negotiations and saving lives, you can have a sense of entitlement.

Moby

Musician, Actors, Saving

"'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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