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Reasons Quotes by Derek Parfit
- Normativity, I believe, is very different from motivating force. Neither includes, or implies, the other. Other animals can be motivated by their desires and beliefs.…
- While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire, it may be…
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- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing… — Margaret Atwood
- How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! — Jane Austen
- Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or… — Honore de Balzac
- People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Some of these actresses or public personas who are very public about their disciplined diets, more power to them. I just don't… — Amy Adams
- I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they… — James A. Baldwin
- So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person. — Anne Bancroft
- I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. — Douglas Adams
- One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about… — Scott Adams
- This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. — Simone de Beauvoir
- I love scoring goals for England and playing for England. That's one of the reasons I didn't retire - I love playing… — David Beckham