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• I have a hunch the most important reason we're going to space is not known now.

  Burt Rutan

  Space, Important, Hunches

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• The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the work which I had undertaken. . . . Astronomy is written for astronomers. To them my work too will seem, unless I am mistaken, to make some contribution.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Novelty, Opinion, Astronomy

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• There are reasons, increasing in number and quality, to believe that the masses of ordinary galaxies may have been underestimated by a factor of 10 or more.

  Jeremiah P. Ostriker

  Believe, Numbers, Quality

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• Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers abroad, they are focusing their anxieties on home. The reasons are not far to seek. We are at a turning point in human history. . . . We could turn our attention to the problems that going to the Moon certainly will not solve ... But I think this would be fatal to our future. . . . A society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Moving

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• I train for two reasons. Number one, I love working out, and number two, I want to win. You can't win if you don't train to the best of your ability.

  Branch Warren

  Bodybuilding, Winning, Two

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• Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Yield, Europe, May

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.54, editionNEXT.com

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• The reason why you were allowed to get away with that in the '60s and '70s is because this country's racist administrative policies were such that rich white kids were getting exemptions. I said no exemptions.

  Montel Williams

  Country, Kids, White

  "Interview: Montel Williams". www.askmen.com.

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• There's enough food in this world. There's enough housing in this world. There's enough shelter in this world. There's enough clothing in this world. There's enough teachers, there's enough universities for everybody's needs to be met, and the reasons they aren't is not because of lack of resources. It's because of distribution, and that's the politics of hate, which is why this is a movement against that. It's a politics of love.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Love, Teacher, Hate

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• That does almost nothing to address voters' concerns, which remain a potent factor in the campaign. The bottom line is, there's a reason Republicans keep pushing so hard against Obamacare: So far, it's working.

  Byron York

  Obamacare, Doe, Campaigns

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• I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.

  Daniel Kahikina Akaka

  War, Believe, Past

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• Live every day to fulfill your personal mission. God has a reason for whatever season you are living through right now. A season of loss or blessing? A season of activity or hibernation? A season of growth or incubation? You may think you're on a detour, but God knows the best way for you to reach your destination.

  Barbara Johnson

  Loss, Blessing, Thinking

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.54, Zondervan

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• Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

  Susanna Moodie

  Liars, Lying, Pride

  Susanna Moodie (1853). “Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush”, p.76, London : R. Bentley

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• Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

  Mark Twain

  Tired, Forbidden, Concern

  "The Gorky Incident". Essay by Mark Twain, 1906.

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• Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I'm very much afraid that you will never really see the point.

  Hafez

  Love, Book, Trying

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• We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should not pray. Others give reasons why we should pray. Very little is said of the reason we do pray. The reason is simple: We pray because we cannot help praying.

  William James

  Prayer, Science, Simple

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• Freemasonry is an institution founded on eternal reason and truth; whose deep basis is the civilization of mankind, and whose everlasting glory it is to have the immovable support of those two mighty pillars, science and morality.

  George Washington

  Civilization, Two, Support

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• I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

  Lucy Stone

  Suffering, Taxation, Bills

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• Objectivism advocates reason as man's sole means of knowledge, and therefore, for the reasons I have already given, it is atheist. It denies any supernatural dimension presented as a contradiction of nature, of existence. This applies not only to God, but also to every variant of the supernatural ever advocated or to be advocated. In other words, we accept reality, and that's all.

  Leonard Peikoff

  Atheist, Mean, Reality

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• I don't think it's a coincidence this happened. God does things for a reason ... It's a good message for back home.

  Andrew Whitworth

  Home, Thinking, Messages

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• I see no reason why 1931 should not be an extremely good year.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Years, Reason Why, Great Depression

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• Social Security is inherently unsound for the simple reason that it's a political program run by politicians for political purposes...Social Security operates on a very simple principle: the politicians take your money from you and squander it.

  Harry Browne

  Running, Simple, Political

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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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• But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the governments have generally been the result of a single man's observations; or the offspring of particular interests. In the formation of our constitution, the wisdom of all ages is collected-the legislators of antiquity are consulted-as well as the opinions and interests of the millions who are concerned. In short, it is an empire of reason.

  Noah Webster

  Men, Age, Together

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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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• To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Practice, Superstitions, Mass

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.52, Advaita Ashrama

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