Quotes with non-reason

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  • Scott Glenn I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life.
    Scott Glenn
    American actor (1941 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke I've never been on Wall Street. And I care about Wall Street for one reason and one reason only because what happens on Wall Street matters to Main Street.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bill Flores If a country like Chile can fix its social security system, there is no reason a country as great as the United States... can't fix our Social Security system.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Bradley A. Smith If candidates spend money on ads and other political speech and their opponents are rewarded with government handouts to attack them, that chills speech and is unconstitutional. Non-participating candidates certainly don't volunteer to allow their opponents to receive taxpayer subsidies to bash them.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Boris Johnson If gay marriage was OK ... then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Annie Leibovitz If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Caroline Wozniacki If I didn't love tennis, I wouldn't be playing. That's also why I don't know how long I will be playing because if I start feeling like this is not what I want to do anymore, that there's not really any reason anymore.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Bonnie McKee If I know I will be working with someone and they are not keen with writing with a girl, I like to be non-threatening and cool so they will trust me. It's a thought process of who work and how I want to present myself.
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W. Bruce Cameron If I'm right, the only reason our species is still around is because of our friendship with the canines.
    W. Bruce Cameron
    American writer and columnist (1960 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Michel Foucault If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Caleb Cushing If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Bert McCracken If there is a God, he or she or it or whatever higher power there is is behind us so long as we're using our music in an inspirational way. I'm here for a reason, and I was given a talent, so I'll continue to try to use it.
    Bert McCracken
    American singer (1982 - )
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  • Bill Vaughan If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it's another nonconformist who does not conform to the prevailing standards of non-conformity.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Mark Twain If they had not landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Francis Quarles If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Auberon Herbert If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Bernie S. Siegel If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war, for being free of abuse, or for having food, warmth, clothing, and shelter - we would have no reason to go on. What you hope for doesn't matter, but rather the essence of hope itself.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Carl Sagan If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
    The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995) Ch. 1 : The Most Precious Thing
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Lord Chesterfield If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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