Simple Reason Quotes

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A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for… — Mahatma Gandhi
Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
My whole effort here is to keep you as non-serious as possible, for the simple reason that meditation, all kinds of meditation, can make you… — Rajneesh
Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted. — Blaise Pascal
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is… — Jorge Luis Borges
I've been a little more fortunate, perhaps, than a lot of people have, for the simple reason that I've constantly been moving: so nobody can… — Chico Hamilton
Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing's funny about that. The… — Fred Hampton
I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. These properties we can only speak of when… — Nikola Tesla
Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex… — Arthur Koestler
Art experts are unfailingly opposed to Art for the simple reason that they are interested in Art - but Art is not interested in Art.… — Stephen Vizinczey
In fact, a person always finds when he begins to practice meditation that all sorts of problems are brought out. Any hidden aspects of your… — Chogyam Trungpa
Supposing we knew that up there is some alien civilization and it's sending radio signals our way we should not tell the public where that… — Paul Davies
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote… — Charles Caleb Colton
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in… — Walker Evans
The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of… — Tom Hodgkinson
The reason why I'm here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and… — Marco Rubio
Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach… — Walt Disney
Mr. Speaker, I once again find myself compelled to vote against the annual budget resolution for a very simple reason: it makes government bigger. — Ron Paul
Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason… — Vladimir Nabokov
If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so… — Martha Gellhorn

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