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• Any girl who has flown at all grows used to the prejudice of most men pilots who will trot out any number of reasons why women can't possibly be good pilots. . . . The only way to show the disbelievers, the snickering hangar pilots, is to show them.

  Cornelia Fort

  Girl, Women, Numbers

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• Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

  Socrates

  War, Greed, Desire

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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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• 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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• I see no reason why Indians who can give satisfactory proof of having by their own labor supported their families for a number of years, and who are willing to detach themselves from their tribal relations, should not be admitted to the benefit of the homestead act and the privileges of citizenship, and I recommend the passage of a law to that effect. It will be an act of justice as well as a measure of encouragement.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Encouragement, Years, Law

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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. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.

  Edward Zwick

  Movie, Inspiring, People

  "Blood Diamond: Interview with Director Ed Zwick". Interview with Emanuel Levy, emanuellevy.com. November 14, 2006.

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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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• I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him at present in a swoon (faint)as to all evidences of the spiritual life. And the reason why I will not judge him so is this -- because if you judge a person dead, you neglect him, you leave him; but if you judge him in a swoon,(faint) though never so dangerous, you use all means for the retrieving of his life.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Mean, Judging

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• The Christian's instincts of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. But this is knowledge which Christians today largely lack: and that is one reason why our faith is so feeble and our worship so flabby... When a person in the church, let alone the person in the street, uses the word God, the thought is rarely of divine majesty.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Greatness, Church

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• Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.

  William O. Douglas

  Brother, Powerful, World Government

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1970). “POINTS OF REBELLION”

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• The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature was, the fall of our first parents.

  George Whitefield

  Nature, Fall, Son

  George Whitefield (1828). “Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith”, p.284

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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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• 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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• In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at a fish without immediately thinking of how it tastes in the mouth and wanting to eat it. The reason I don't trust Chinese surgeons is that I am afraid that when a Chinese surgeon cuts up my liver in search of a gall-stone, he may forget about the stone and put my liver in a frying pan.

  Lin Yutang

  Believe, Cutting, Thinking

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

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• The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care.

  John Shadegg

  Choices, Quality, News

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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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• Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them.

  Steven Weinberg

  Boring, Reason, Particles

  Richard Phillips Feynman, Steven Weinberg (1999). “Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics: The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures”, p.79, Cambridge University Press

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• The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of our people.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Art, People, Important

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• Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country?

  Carter Glass

  Country, People, Political

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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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• This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction, and, as far as I can see, those to whom it was first delivered regarded it in that light, so that, apart altogether from choice and other lower reasons, my going forth is a matter of obedience to a plain command; and in place of seeking to assign 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, Light, Choices

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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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• To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully. It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life. Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.

  Al Alvarez

  Mistake, Climbing, Routine Life

  "Our enduring desire to court deadly risk" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.

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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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• The world has never before had as much drama as today. Radio, films, television and video inundate us with drama. But while these forms can engage or even enrage the audience, in none of them can the viewer’s response alter the artistic event itselfThat is why theatre is signing its own death warrant when it tries to play too safe. On the other hand, that is also the reason why, although its future often seems bleak, theatre will continue to live and to provoke.

  Girish Karnad

  Drama, Hands, Play

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