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• One of the reasons we think this market will start to run out of gas at some point is that you've essentially created as much gold from straw as you can from this financial alchemy

  Scott Simon

  Running, Thinking, Gold

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• If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in ideas. If he could take what he wants wherever he could find it, as Euripides and Dante and Michelangelo and Shakespeare and Bach were free, his larder would always be full, and his cookery might be worth tasting.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Artist, Ideas, Effort

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• I do not see that the sex of the candidate is an argument against her admission as a Privatdozent. After all, the Senate is not a bathhouse. Objecting to sex discrimination being the reason for rejection of Emmy Noether's application to join the faculty at the University of Gottingen.

  David Hilbert

  Sex, Rejection, Discrimination

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• If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when those who hold the reins can come up with "compelling" reasons to justify it, then constitutional guarantees acquire an accordion-like quality.

  William O. Douglas

  Compelling Reason, Race, Quality

  "DeFunis v. Odegaard, 416 U.S. 312". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 23, 1974.

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• It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail. The religion and public liberty of a people are intimately connected; their interests are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately; and therefore they rise and fall together. For this reason, it is always observable, that those who are combin'd to destroy the people's liberties, practice every art to poison their morals.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Art, Fall

  Samuel Adams (1906). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”

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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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• 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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• The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Suicide, Real, Prevention

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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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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• The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.

  William Bell

  Important, Firsts, Facts

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

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Men, Greed, Stealing

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• PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.

  Greg Graffin

  Growing Up, Expression, Punk

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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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• For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.

  Suzy Bogguss

  Writing, Swings, Intimidating

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• I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted. I have a lot more to drink. For that reason, the political numbers game will be played. I know the rules of their game now and how to play it.

  Harvey Milk

  Giving Up, Games, Play

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• I'm for a multi-racial world in which each race keeps to itself, in harmony with the other races. Like in a garden, you have flowerbeds of roses and flowerbeds of carnations and irises and different other flowers. They don't intermarry. They stay separate, and each one has its beauty. . . . I'm against colonialism for the reason that colonialism infects the master as well as the slave. It even infects the master more.

  Savitri Devi

  Flower, Garden, Race

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• A nation lives forever through its concepts, honor, and culture. It is for these reasons that the rulers of nations must judge and act not only on the basis of physical and material interests of the nation but on the basis of the nation's historical honor, of the nation's eternal interests. Thus: not bread at all costs, but honor at all costs.

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Judging, Forever, Historical

  "For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard". Book by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, 1936.

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• I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.

  Neko Case

  Christian, Father, Should Have

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• So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.

  Lee Hazlewood

  Way, Producers

  "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.

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• If you practice Yoga for small, selfish reasons, you will remain the same, bound by your beliefs about what you can and cannot do. Let go and offer your effort to limitless potential. Dedicate yourself to the happiness of all beings.

  Sharon Gannon

  Letting Go, Selfish, Yoga

  Sharon Gannon, David Life (2011). “Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul”, p.179, Ballantine Books

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• There is a quality of lightness, easiness, and in some sense blatant unseriousness that pervades Classical Christianity's dialogue with modernity. The Christian intellect has no reason to be intimidated in the presense of later-stage modernity. Christianity has seen too many 'modern eras' to be cowed by this one.

  Thomas Oden

  Christian, Quality, Eras

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• Maybe this one moment, with this one person, is the very reason we’re here on Earth at this time.

  Jean Watson

  Earth, Moments, Persons

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