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But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
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Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
To be honest, the biggest reason I write music and became a musician was to create the amount of joy that I… — Hozier Copy Share Image
I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
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In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“And where does this leave God? God loved man, we are told, but love must be proved by facts, not reasons. If… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Food can be utilized for economic reasons, like the grain embargo of Carter 40 years ago. You have a political decision, you… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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The reason why people are huge stars is nothing to do with acting. It's the magic. Charisma is a word that's used… — Shirley Eaton Copy Share Image
This is a Pandora's box, for endless litigation, for division in society setting one group against another, and we must for that… — Stewart Jackson Copy Share Image
The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr.… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
An important reason that we're in the trouble we are in with climate change is that we don't have a handle on… — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
We were told that we were attacked on 9/11 because the terrorists hate our freedoms and democracy ... not for the real… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
The underlying reason for this is the Europeans' fear that Islamists could gain power. Many still consider authoritarian Arab regimes to be… — Alvaro de Vasconcelos Copy Share Image
They were dancing around the fountain, arm in arm, in an old Dutch dance, their cheeks touching, their hands entwined. They had… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
I sit back on my bed cross-legged and find myself rubbing the smooth iridescent surface of the pearl back and forth against… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I'm 27 and guys are pitching into their 40s now. For unfortunate reasons, I haven't been healthy since 2005. But I feel… — Mark Prior Copy Share Image
I think the reason why more rapists go into the military is the same reason why predators go into the Catholic Church.… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I've traveled with Jack Murtha to Iraq three times to learn more about the region, talk with our diplomats and military leaders,… — John B. Larson Copy Share Image
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I'm often asked why I travel around the country talking politics. Is it for humanitarian reasons, community spirit, or is it for… — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
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There is the enormous corpus of Islamic law that is very rich. However, law is one rational exercise of reason. Philosophy is… — Francis George Copy Share Image
I can tell you many reasons why environmental stories don't get adequate attention in conventional media. Basically, environmental risks don't fit the… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image
Each new development starts from something else. It does not come out of a blue sky. You make use of that which… — Robert Crawford Copy Share Image
It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
The man's (a heathen south sea islander) a human being, just as I am; he has just as much reason to fear… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
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