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• The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.

  Laozi

  People, Too Much, Poverty

  Laozi (1999). “Laozi”

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• You must learn her. You must know the reason why she is silent. You must trace her weakest spots. You must write to her. You must remind her that you are there. You must know how long it takes for her to give up. You must be there to hold her when she is about to. You must love her because many have tried and failed. And she wants to know that she is worthy to be loved, that she is worthy to be kept. And, this is how you keep her.

  Junot Diaz

  Relationship, Giving Up, Writing

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• The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed!

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Future, People

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 30, 2015

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• Value investing doesn't always work. The market doesn't always agree with you. Over time, value is roughly the way the market prices stocks, but over the short term, which sometimes can be as long as two or three years, there are periods when it doesn't work. And that is a very good thing. The fact that our value approach doesn't work over periods of time is precisely the reason why it continues to work over the long term.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Years, Two, Long

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• My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the Pinkerton tour, and Pinkerton is the reason why Im doing this.

  Nate Ruess

  Dad, Kids, Firsts

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• There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?

  Ethan Coen

  Song, Pieces, Knows

  "Joel and Ethan Coen" by Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 14, 2009.

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• What workers must learn is that the only reason why wage rates are higher in the United States is that the per head quota of capital invested is higher.

  Ludwig von Mises

  United States, Quota, Rate

  Ludwig Von Mises (2008). “Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses”

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• There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.

  Christine Gregoire

  People, World, Care

  Christine Gregoire's Inaugural Speech in Olympia, Washington, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 12, 2005.

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• The single greatest reason why we are losing a generation is because the home is no longer the place of the transference of the faith. We live in a day of ‘outsourcing’…Today, we have a generation of people that outsource their kids.

  Tony Evans

  Home, Kids, People

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• Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.

  Karen Armstrong

  Thinking, Way, Century

  "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org.

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• Once and for all, people must understand that addiction is a disease. It’s critical if we’re going to effectively prevent and treat addiction. Accepting that addiction is an illness will transform our approach to public policy, research, insurance, and criminality; it will change how we feel about addicts, and how they feel about themselves. There’s another essential reason why we must understand that addiction is an illness and not just bad behavior: We punish bad behavior. We treat illness.

  David Sheff

  People, Addiction, Essentials

  David Sheff (2013). “Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Justice is always naive and self-confident; believing that it will immediately win once recognized. That is the reason why the forces of Justice are so poorly organized. On the other hand, the Evil is cynic, sly and fantastically organized. It never ever has the illusion of the ability to stand on its own feet and to win in a fair competition. That is why it is ready to use any kind of means without hesitation. And of course it does - under the banners of the most noble ideas.

  Vladimir Bukovsky

  Believe, Mean, Winning

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• There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other.

  Edward Zwick

  Challenges, Stories, Fuel

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

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• There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards.

  Terry Pratchett

  Magic, Wizards, World

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)”, p.182, Random House

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• Haters are just confused admirers because they can't figure out the reason why everyone loves you.

  Jeffree Star

  Love, Funny, Hater

  FaceBook post by Jeffree Star from Feb 17, 2013

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• Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?

  Mary Oliver

  Dog, Rivers, Honor

  Mary Oliver (2013). “Dog Songs: Deluxe Edition”, p.63, Penguin

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• If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Baseball, People, Bats

  "How to Seem (and Be) Deep" by Eliezer Yudkowsky, lesswrong.com. October 14, 2007.

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• One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem,above all other sciences,is
  that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable,while those of all
  other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being
  overthrown by newly discovered facts.

  Albert Einstein

  Law, Special, Facts

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.249, Running Press

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• There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.

  Peter Drucker

  Two, People, Giving

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• The reason why you were allowed to get away with that in the '60s and '70s is because this country's racist administrative policies were such that rich white kids were getting exemptions. I said no exemptions.

  Montel Williams

  Country, Kids, White

  "Interview: Montel Williams". www.askmen.com.

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• We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should not pray. Others give reasons why we should pray. Very little is said of the reason we do pray. The reason is simple: We pray because we cannot help praying.

  William James

  Prayer, Science, Simple

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• It is on this beautiful day that we celebrate the Fuhrers birthday and thank him for he is the only reason why Germany is still alive today

  Joseph Goebbels

  Beautiful, War, Live For Today

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• The only reason why people do not have what they want is because they are thinking more about what they don't want than what they do want.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Thinking, Law Of Attraction, People

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• I've got no interest in going over to California to fight that boring git, in a fight that no one's interested in, and that's the reason why he's trying to pimp himself out everywhere.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Fighting, California

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• The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Jobs, Mean

  "'Drive' Not Always Explained By Rewards". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 4, 2010.

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