Quotes with non-reason

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  • Bill James Baseball does become slow sometimes. It's totally unnecessary. The - you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do about.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • John Irving Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Buddha Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Agnes Smedley But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Bruce Springsteen But it's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin
    And can't stand the company.
    Every fool's got a reason to feelin' sorry for himself
    And turn his heart to stone.
    Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell
    And I feel like I'm comin' home.
    Lucky Town (1992) Better Days
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bradley A. Smith By law, super PACs are required to disclose their donors. There are groups that have never had to disclose their donors, non-profits such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, and the NRA. If you want more disclosure, super PACs are a step forward.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • John Butler Yeats By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
    John Butler Yeats
    Irish painter (1839 - 1922)
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  • Carol Gilligan Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Childhood is the sleep of reason.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Bill Kurtis Choose something you like to do. I know it's a cliche, and you've heard it over and over. But the reason is, you're going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • William Blake Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Carl Levin Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Betty Williams Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • Malcolm X Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Joseph Cook Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
    Joseph Cook
    6th prime minister of Australia from 1913 to 1914 (1860 - 1947)
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  • Alexander Hamilton Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Archibald Macleish Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Gordon Sumner Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.
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  • Brad Holland Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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