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The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
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The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
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The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.
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The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.
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The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
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The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
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The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
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The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
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The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.
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The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.
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The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.
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The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
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The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.
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The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people's radar, and for good reason. It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go 'round and 'round.
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The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
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