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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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• We look back, already, with astonishment, at the daring outrages committed by despotism, on the reason and rights of man; we look forward with joy, to the period, when it shall be despoiled of all its usurpations, and bound forever in the chains, with which it had loaded its miserable victims.

  James Madison

  Men, Rights, Joy

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.467

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• But if they are well-founded and just, they can be no less than the high requirements of heaven, addressed by the voice of God to the reason and understanding of man, concerning things deeply affecting his relations to his sovereign, and essential to the formation of his character and of course to his destiny, both for this life and for the life.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Character, Destiny, Men

  Simon Greenleaf (1995). “The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence”, p.10, Kregel Publications

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• It is not what we choose that is important; it is the reason we choose it.

  Caroline Myss

  Important, Comeback

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• Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their reason to pander to their own prejudices and preconceptions, which they are so rarely competent to look in the face.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, People, Trying

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• Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.

  Wanda Jackson

  Girl, Inspiration, People

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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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• Eyesight should learn from reason.

  Johannes Kepler

  Science, Mystery, Should

  Johannes Kepler (1995). “Epitome of Copernican Astronomy: & Harmonies of the World”, Prometheus Books

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• Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Science, Age, Lasts

  John Maynard Keynes (2015). “The Essential Keynes”, p.516, Penguin UK

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• Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.

  Sophocles

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.

  Deepak Chopra

  Self, People, Awareness

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• Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Patience, Space, Challenges

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• Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

  William Godwin

  Passion, Revolution, Quiet

  William Godwin (1798). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness”, p.244

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• Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same reason: Men have forgotten God.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Men, Evil, East

  "Have We Forgotten God?" by John W. Whitehead, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

  Immanuel Kant

  Freedom, Light, Immortality

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• One reason why men and women lose their heads so often is that they use them so little! It is the same with everything. If we have anything that is valuable, it must be put to some sort of use. If a man's muscles are neglected, he soon has none, or rather none worth mentioning. The more the mind is used the more flexible it becomes, and the more it takes upon itself new interests.

  George Matthew Adams

  Men, Often Is, Mind

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• Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

  William Allen White

  Men, World, Wrecks

  William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”

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• Being a mom's so empowering and incredible. I'm one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that's where the best moments come from.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Mom, Believe, People

  "Ashlee Simpson Doesn't Envy Sister Jessica's Single-Girl Freedom" by Michael Y. Park, people.com. September 10, 2009.

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• Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very deeply by many opponents, and theory, based on a small number of 'reliable' games, must be rather unreliable.

  Bent Larsen

  Small Numbers, Games, Play

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• For over forty years, in a spirit of love, members of the Church have been counseled to be thrifty and self-reliant; to avoid debt; pay tithes and a generous fast offering; be industrious; and have sufficient food, clothing, and fuel on hand to last at least one year. Today there are compelling reasons to reemphasize this counsel.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Religious, Compelling Reason, Offering

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• We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Delight, Moments, Pursuit

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1158, Delphi Classics

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• It was very easy to kind of, kinda shut off and just, just kinda go crazy and just kinda dive into this or that. You never really take a minute to look around, you know take stock and see where you're at and make sure you're doing things for the right reasons and make sure that you remember to call that person who's really important to you and you know, tell them what's on your mind, and be honest with yourself.

  Andrew McMahon

  Crazy, Mind, Important

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• Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

  William Blake

  Art, Business, Wind

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Suffering, Tyranny

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “Pseudodoxia epidemica, books V-VII. Religio medici. The garden of Cyprus”, p.315

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