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Reason also is choice.
Logic
John Milton

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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Argument
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.
Submission
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
Law and Lawyers
Thomas Moore

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A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.
Reason
John Pierpont Morgan

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A man always has two reasons for what he doesa good one, and the real one.
Uncategorised
John Pierpont Morgan

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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
Fanatics and Fanaticism
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
Reason
Austin O'Malley

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I see no reason why anyone would want a computer in their home.
Computers
Kenneth Olsen

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
Reason
Ovid

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You can handle people more successfully by enlisting their feelings than by convincing their reason.
Praise
Paul P. Parker

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Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
Enthusiasm
Blaise Pascal

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.
Heart
Blaise Pascal

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The war existing between the senses and reason.
Conflict
Blaise Pascal

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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
Suicide
Cesare Pavese

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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
Passion
William Penn

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Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.
Reason
Soren F. Petersen

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Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
Indifference
Francis Picabia

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Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.
Joy
Platen

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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Science and Scientists
Plato

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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Reason
Alexander Pope

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The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Passion
Alexander Pope

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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
Motivation
Alexander Pope

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Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
Eyes
Alexander Pope

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Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.
Merit
Proverb

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun