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• Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Animal, Men, Humanity

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• The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.

  Laozi

  Humility, Sea, Rivers

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• Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ambition, Mind, Towers

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.35

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• What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

  Ovid

  Intuition, Instinct, Impulse

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• Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Sad, Sorrow, Trials

  Khaled Hosseini (2008). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.36, A&C Black

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• The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Essence, Intuition

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man: the Evolution”, p.113, VM eBooks

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• The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Country, Attitude, War

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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• A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.

  Lil Wayne

  Mean, Dark, Knowing

  "Is Lil Wayne a Pop Star?"by Sophie Schillaci, Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 7, 2011.

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• The reason producers make stupid movies is because there are stupid people who will pay to see them.

  Jessica Zafra

  Stupid, People, Pay

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end.

  Khalil

  Lying, Tyrants, Long

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• But then, that's the beauty of writing stories-each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there's no feeling like it.

  T.C. Boyle

  Writing, Journey, Feelings

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• No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body than he who does less, inasmuch as neither virtue nor merit consists therein; for otherwise he would be an evil case, who for some legitimate reason was unable to do actual penance. Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Light, Evil, Giving

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• The world has made everything else and still it can't make peace. And the reason it can't make peace is because of the evil, ignorance and stupidity. I have songs that explain these facts. And that's the blues.

  Willie Dixon

  Song, Ignorance, Evil

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• I don’t have a problem baring my emotions in music. That’s one of the reasons I’m glad to have music in my life. I’m pretty resilient as far as being a human being. A lot of songs write themselves.

  Shelby Lynne

  Song, Writing, Emotion

  "Country-pop star Shelby Lynne: an unfiltered original". Atlanta Journal-Constitution interview, www.denverpost.com. January 19, 2012.

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• In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Hate, Blood, Rage

  Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1989). “Early Poems”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Reality, Sanity, No Reason

  Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.57, Faber & Faber

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• We just laid down on the bed together with Reese Witherspoon at the Four Seasons, and she's like, "What are people going to think of Legally Blonde? They're just going to think I'm some ditz." I'm like, "No. They're going to love you." And they do, for good reason. She was amazing!

  Selma Blair

  Love You, Thinking, People

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• A person repents when he comes to the place where he discovers that the will of God is the government of his life and the glory of God is the reason for his life. He only has repented who has changed his mind about his reason for being.

  Paris Reidhead

  Life, Change, God

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• To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

  Bertrand Russell

  World, Being True, Shows

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.19, Routledge

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• I wish to note that the level of discourse in Nigeria is abysmally low, and, usually, garnished with character assassination. We allow our personal frustrations to becloud reason

  Dele Momodu

  Character, Frustration, Wish

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• The reason men rule is because women let them.

  Jessica Zafra

  Men

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Sick, Doing Nothing

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• Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.

  Frank Pittman

  Children, Believe, Men

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• Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed.

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Men, Greed, Stealing

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• In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Heart, Laughing, Balance

  FaceBook post by Yakov Smirnoff from Apr 10, 2014

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