Quotes with non-reason

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  • Bertrand Russell Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Ahmet Necdet Sezner Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be.
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  • Selma James Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants - even women! - new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.
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  • Bob Filner Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Jonathan Swift Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • James A. Froude Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Stanislaw I. Leszczynski Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.
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  • John W. Gardner Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Allen Tate Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Bobby Vinton Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Billie Lourd She raised me to not think of men and women as different. She raised me without gender. It's kind of the reason she named me Billie. It's not about being a strong woman - it's about being a strong person.
    Billie Lourd
    American actress (1992 - )
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  • Bryan Callen Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Nicholas Boileau Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
    Nicholas Boileau
    French poet and critic (1636 - 1711)
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  • Alain de Botton Some of the reason why we marry the wrong people is that we don't really understand ourselves.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Alexander Pope Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
    Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Arthur Laffer Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Ben Jonson Still may syllabes jar with time,
    Still may reason war with rhyme,
    Resting never!
    The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio XXIX, A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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