Quotes 441 till 460 of 744.
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Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.
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Sure, he, that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason, to fast in us unused.
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Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference...
Pensees (1669) -
That is the reason they are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.
An Ideal Husband -
That person who's going to a concert for a nostalgic reason, we're not really going to placate. We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it.
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That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.
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That which is to be loved long must be loved with reason rather than with passion.
Idler -
The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.
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The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
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The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.
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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
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The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.
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The big reason why we don't have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain 'hard.' The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is a costly affair that requires a lot of technology.
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The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.
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The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
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The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
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The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
The C++ Programming Language p.9
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