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• I think the reason why 'Red Eye' is popular is because we question the common assumptions that you find elsewhere.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Eye, Thinking, Red

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• In case you haven't noticed, people get hard-hearted against the people they hurt. Because they can't stand it. Literally. To think we did that to someone. I did that. So we think of all the reasons why it's okay we did whatever we did.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Hurt, Thinking, People

  Elizabeth Strout (2013). “The Burgess Boys”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen

  A. A. Milne

  Men, Thinking, Average

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• If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.

  Ayn Rand

  Book, Writing, Giving

  Ayn Rand (2000). “The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers”, p.22, Penguin

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• Liberals state that many teenagers would rather sell crack for $100 an hour than to flip hamburgers for a minimum wage. Using the same liberal logic, you might think it would make more sense for the average middle-class worker to rob banks rather than work a forty-hour week? The reason why most people, rich and poor, do not commit crimes because they know it is wrong to do so.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Work, Teenager, Thinking

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• I personally don't like eating animals. I'm not the kind of person that tries to preach to other people. But, for me, I don't feel right about doing it. That's the main reason why I stay vegetarian...I know the guys that have switched [to vegetarian] all swear by it-they say they love how it makes them feel.

  Jake Shields

  Animal, People, Guy

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• The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.

  John Stott

  Taken, People, Culture

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• The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is like a soul, and that every soul should have its own body.

  Adam Kirsch

  Book, Should Have, Ideas

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• The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation from a deep-seated state of fear, need, lack, and incompleteness that is part of the human condition in its unredeemed and unenlightened state.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Romantic Love, Romance, Love Relationship

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.150, New World Library

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• I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Church, World

  Charles Spurgeon (1989). “The Soul Winner”, p.278, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

  Tom Wopat

  Song, Years, Singing

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• Well, I think I'm not a non-believer, and I'm not a believer. But, on the other hand, I couldn't give you a good enough reason why EVP doesn't exist. I don't know enough about it, so how could I say it's not true. Plus, a person's reality is a person's reality so that's your belief system. It's all perception anyway, isn't it.

  Michael Keaton

  Thinking, Reality, Hands

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• One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their 'gospel' doesn't even need it.

  Scot McKnight

  Christian, Needs, Today

  Scot McKnight (2016). “The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited”, p.27, Zondervan

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• Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Election, Reason

  "U.S. Holds to Deadline for Iraq Power Transfer", www.foxnews.com. January 23, 2004.

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• Not a single one of the doctrines of Marx has ever been accepted by any economist or any philosopher. But what of it? It was necessary that Gaiseric should convince economists or philosophers that there were sound reasons why he should capture Rome. He and his followers wanted it, and they had the power to take it.

  Thomas Nixon Carver

  Rome, Sound, Doctrine

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• The music is the void. And you're the reason why.

  Gayle Forman

  Void, Reason, Music Is

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.65, Penguin

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• I think this reason why girls don’t do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said, ‘All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what’s it going to be?’ We all know what was chosen.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Girl, Stupid, Thinking

  "Big Fat Lies" by Steven Rendell, Jim Naureckas, and Jeff Cohen, www.motherjones.com. May 1995.

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• There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked out of them ...I think of the self-actualising man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away.

  Abraham Maslow

  Baby, Taken, Men

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• I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.

  Charles Tupper

  Education, Teacher, School

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• ...in place of seeking a reason for going abroad, I would prefer to say that I have failed to discover any reason why I should stay at home.

  James Gilmour

  Home, Missionary, Should

  James Gilmour (1892). “James Gilmour of Mongolia: His Diaries, Letters and Reports”

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• In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some are personal failures, others are losses to the pitcher. You just get beat. In those personal failures, I felt I could have done better.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Baseball, Loss, Different

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• With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff.

  Wells Tower

  Writing, Stuff, Stopping

  "The Tool Box: Wells Tower". www.newyorker.com. April 6, 2009.

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• There is no reason why the aeroplane should not open up a fruitful occupation for women.

  Harriet Quimby

  Occupation, Should, No Reason

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• Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them.

  William Empson

  Impossible, Remember, Proust

  William Empson (1966). “Seven Types of Ambiguity”, p.249, New Directions Publishing

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• Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our bank account. The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self-justifications and a million reasons why we can’t/shouldn’t/won’t do what we know we need to do.

  Steven Pressfield

  Self, Giving, Preparation

  "Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way". Book by Steven Pressfield, 2011.

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