Reason Quotes - Page 39

• Here at NBC there is just one more reason to hate the Yankees.

  Chet Huntley

  Baseball, Hate, Nbc

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• The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.

  Paul Weyrich

  Radio, Conservative, Audience

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• If, for example, existing government intervention is minor, we shall attach a smaller weight to the negative effect of additional government intervention. This is an important reason why many earlier liberals, like Henry Simons, writing at a time when government was small by today's standards, were willing to have government undertake activities that today's liberals would not accept now that government has become so overgrown.

  Milton Friedman

  Writing, Government, Important

  Milton Friedman (2017). “Milton Friedman on Freedom: Selections from The Collected Works of Milton Friedman”, p.45, Hoover Press

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• What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not be deceived by phrases about 'Man taking charge of his own destiny'. All that can really happen is that some men will take charge of the destiny of the others. They will be simply men; none perfect; some greedy, cruel and dishonest. The more completely we are planned the more powerful they will be. Have we discovered some new reason why, this time, power should not corrupt as it has done before?

  C. S. Lewis

  Powerful, Destiny, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.353, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The main reason to be opposed to political control of smoking is to keep power -even the smallest and silliest kind of power - out of the hands of ... members of a dangerous class -the class that knows what's good for us better than we do.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Hands, Class

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• The only reason for a government service is precisely to provide financial support for an operation that is otherwise unsustainable, or else there would be no point in the government's involvement at all.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Government, Support, Would Be

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• What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?

  Shimon Peres

  Land, Important Choices, Israel

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• I chose to start my world tour in Israel for a very specific and important reason. As you know, the Middle East and all the conflicts that occur here and that have been occurring for thousands of years... They have to stop... You can't be a fan of mine and not want peace in the world.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Israel, Years, Important

  "Madonna Kicks off MDNA Tour in Tel Aviv" by Anthony Castellano, abcnews.go.com. June 1, 2012.

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• The world cannot live at peace without the United Nations. For this reason: it creates a reasonable guarantee that all this change in the world, these tremendous political and economic developments, can be channelized, kept orderly. The United Nations is a mold that keeps the hot metal from spilling over.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Peace, Guarantees That, Political

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• There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up.

  Scott Stapp

  Moving, Player, One Direction

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• Scientists may study mainly matter but they cannot ignore the human mind, or consciousness: spiritual practitioners may be engaging mainly in developing the mind but they cannot completely ignore their physical needs. It is for this reason that I have always stressed the importance of combining both mental and the material approach to achieving happiness for humankind.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Mind, Stressed

  Dalai Lama, Herbert Benson, Robert Thurman, Howard Gardner, Daniel Goleman (2012). “MindScience: An East-West Dialogue”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they were during the First World War. The public sees no reason to get involved in foreign adventures, killing, and torture. So you have to whip them up. And to whip them up you have to frighten them.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Adventure, Media

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.30, Seven Stories Press

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• The only reason I'd ever get a sex change operation is to see what it's like to be right all the time.

  Brian Wilson

  Sex, Funny Women, Operations

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• It is for these reasons that I believe we must expand day-care centers and provide other assistance which I have recommended to the Congress. At present, the total facilities of all the licensed day-care centers in the Nation can take care of only 185,000 children. Nearly 500,000 children under 12 must take care of themselves while their mothers work. This, it seems to me, is a formula for disaster.

  John F. Kennedy

  Mother, Children, Believe

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963".

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• I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.

  Ringo Starr

  Band, Reason Why, Broke Up

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• I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.

  Dana Hill

  Hiking, Mountain, Wonder

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• The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.

  Dick Wolf

  Change, Support Systems, Fundamentals

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• But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

  Polly Toynbee

  Education, Government, World

  "This is a clash of civilisations - between reason and superstition" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2006.

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• There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

  Albert Shanker

  Education, Swimming, Use

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• My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.

  Edward Teller

  Courage, Fighting, Winning

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• The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

  Elihu Root

  Faith, Fall, People

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself.

  Tanya Tucker

  Friends, Thinking, People

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• You know it's funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny did. No one talks about it much, but it's curious that they don't do it. They would each have to be asked the reason why they don't.

  Garry Shandling

  Night, Use, Guests

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• The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.

  Karen Hughes

  Fun, Humor, President

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• A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

  Martin Feldstein

  Judgement, Reason Why, Financial

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