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215 quotesThey whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
Glutton
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Reason
Immanuel Kant
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Excuses
Rudyard Kipling
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No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.
Behavior
Korner
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Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
Luck
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Language
Claude Levi-Strauss
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
Passion
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
Action
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Commonplace
Abraham Lincoln
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
Wickedness
Titus Livy
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
Reason
James Russell Lowell
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Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
Jealousy
Clare Boothe Luce
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Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
Faith
Martin Luther
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Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.
Reason
Martin Luther
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Reason is the enemy of faith.
Faith
Martin Luther
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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Promises
Niccolo Machiavelli
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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
Wisdom
Maurice Maeterlinck
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Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
Reason
Maurice Maeterlinck
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
Socializing and Socialism
Thomas Mann
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Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
Fate
Thomas Mann
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The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Marya Mannes
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When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason.
Husbands
Molly Mcgee
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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
Action
H. L. Mencken
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Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.
Sex
Henry Miller
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The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't.
Rock and Roll
Mitch Miller
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun