Quotes 541 till 560 of 659.
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They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
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They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.
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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Notes on the Next War (1935) -
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
The High School Teacher, Vol. XI (1935) p. 60 -
This is a song about the reason we all came down here today, and that's because we (expletive) love music. This is a crowd-surfing song.
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This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.
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This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
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This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
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This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits who are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth
Polygamy Journal of Discourses, 4:56(Sept. 21, 1856) -
Though I am still very vulnerable to audiences - and it happens all the time - where for some reason the energy doesn't connect and, since the film is very personal, obviously I am made to feel very vulnerable by that.
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Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
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Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.
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Time makes more converts than reason.
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To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.''
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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.
The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma -
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
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To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!
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To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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To me the supreme aim is an act of faith and reason to make one rejoice in the midst of tragedy.
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