Famous Quotes: Reason

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
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As a matter of fact I don't like politics. I really don't. I think it's so jaded now and everybody has to follow the party line.
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Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
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Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
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I do love country music.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
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I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.
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What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.
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I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.
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There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
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So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips.
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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
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I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.
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I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.
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Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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