Quotes with reasons

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  • Benny Goodman One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn't keep on, you'll find 'em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of 'em.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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  • Francis Picabia Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • Bertrand Russell Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Blaise Pascal People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by others.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Robert Schumann People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.
    Robert Schumann
    German composer (1810 - 1856)
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  • Zig Ziglar People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Anna Lindh Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • John Selden Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Henry Miller Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski So I think that is one of the reasons we can face some regional problems, which are very difficult, very dramatic and is necessary to have instruments to solve these problems. NATO is such instrument.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills Some men want war for sordid, others for idealistic, reasons; some for personal gain, others for impersonal principle. But most of those who consciously want war and accept it, and so help to create its inevitability, want it in order to shift the locus of their problems.
    The Causes of World War Three (1960)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Alan Cohen Sometimes when things seem to be going wrong, they are going right for reasons you are yet to understand.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Alain de Botton Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Carlton Cuse That's one of the reasons why 'Lost' has to end: because we can't sit around and envision, 'What is the flashback for Jack in year nine?' It doesn't realistically exist.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Alice Walker The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Ben Horowitz The bad thing about young people starting a company is that sometimes they do it for the wrong reasons or because they have the wrong skill set, but the good thing is that they don't have any of the old paradigms baked into them, so they have a lot of the bright new ideas that are harder to come by as you get older.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Bo Bennett The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
    Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Bo Bennett The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Anna Lindh The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Carson McCullers The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
    The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1943)
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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