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• Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Passion, Office

  A Treatise upon Human Nature bk. 2 (1739)

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• Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.

  Lois Lowry

  Waiting, Weapons, Shelter

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Smiling without good reason is demeaning.

  Ellen Raskin

  Demeaning

  Ellen Raskin (2014). “The Westing Game”, p.44, Obelix Books

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• We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Way, Irrational

  "Island".

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• Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.

  Anchee Min

  Frustration, Order, Mind

  Anchee Min (2006). “Empress Orchid”, p.224, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The reason 'closure' is a cliche is that it is used too often, too imprecisely, and doesn't in any case reflect reality. In reality, such closure in broken friendships and much else in life is rarely achieved; only death brings closure and then not always for those still living.

  Joseph Epstein

  Reality, Broken, Life Is

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• Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.

  Richard Bach

  Morning, Cookies, Tables

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• I understand the reasons behind his keeping a distance from a girl he cares about. Because the truth is, sometimes getting close to the fire does actually burn you.

  Simone Elkeles

  Girl, Distance, Fire

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Faith, Spiritual, Religious

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.16, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

  Alexander Pope

  Passion, Literature, Conquer

  Epistles to Several Persons "To Lord Bathurst" l. 155 (1733)

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• Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Discipline, Should, Appetite

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.52

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• Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Math, Noble

  Charles Baudelaire (1992). “Selected Writings on Art and Literature”, Penguin Classics

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• As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial of God. It professes to believe in a man rather than in God. It is a compound made up chiefly of Manism with but little Deism, and is as near to Atheism as twilight is to darkness. It introduces between man and his Maker an opaque body, which it calls a Redeemer, as the moon introduces her opaque self between the earth and the sun, and it produces by this means a religious, or an irreligious, eclipse of light. It has put the whole orbit of reason into shade.

  Thomas Paine

  Christian, Religious, Believe

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deistic Critique of Bible and Christian Church”, p.26, e-artnow

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• As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

  Thomas Browne

  Passion, Uprising, Rebel

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• I believe that everything happens for a reason.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Meaningful

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Passion, Men, Conquer The World

  Benjamin Disraeli (1869). “The Novels and Tales of the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P.”, p.176

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• I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.

  Juvenal

  Order

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• People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.

  Jodi Picoult

  People, Enemy, Grudge

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1051, Simon and Schuster

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• See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

  Joyce Carol Oates

  People, Might, Knows

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• There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.

  Amy Tan

  Fate, Trying, No Hope

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.130, Penguin

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• The best players in any high-stakes field - business, entertainment, law, surgery, as well as sport - recognize that pressure occurs at the moments when meaningful accomplishment is possible. In fact, that is the reason why performers perform: for the opportunity to tackle challenges head on, to do something significant, to demonstrate what their hard work and talent can produce.

  John Eliot

  Success, Meaningful, Sports

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• For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

  Quintilian

  Comic

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 658-59, De Institutione Oratoria, II. 17. 1, 1922.

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• We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.

  Samuel Johnson

  May, Fancy, Guides

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.258

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• Reason and truth will prevail at last

  Samuel Johnson

  Truth Will Prevail, Lasts

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1801). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.”, p.340

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