Once the people begin to reason, all is lost
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Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.
VOLTAIRE Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mothe...
JOHN CONNOLLY Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to mast...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; ...
MARTIN GARDNER The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
ANONYMOUS Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilo...
JAMES EARL JONES The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
PAUL FIX The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
PAUL FIX It is seldom that any liberty is lost all at once.
DAVID HUME How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how
horrible is it to be a mischievous and...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his ...
G. K. CHESTERTON It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
DAVID HUME It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
HUME Common sense is not so common.
[Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]
- Voltaire (Franco...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) It is not not much wrong to say that all women have wickedness in them. That is the reason that the ...
APURVA GAGLANI Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th...
THE CREE PEOPLE We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, some...
FYDOR DOSTOEVSKY We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, some...
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, some...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, some...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY My good opinion once lost is lost forever.
JANE AUSTEN One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
DENNIS MILLER Sometimes... Reason and Love are met with a violent ignorance that even what's right gets lost. Our ...
SOLANGE NICOLE Innocence could be lost more than once after all.
SELENA KITT The reason we are supporting the bill is because it's not their money to begin with.
JENNIFER PERRONE All's well that carries on well
AMIT ABRAHAM For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost ...
SUSAN HILL You will rise above all limitations once you begin to live life with the right attitude. People who ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."N. B.: This quote...
S. G. TALLENTYRE While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
QUINTILIAN While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the
opportunity is lost.
FRANCIS QUARLES Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all t...
RUSSELL BAKER A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, i...
JOHN ADAMS When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.
NATASHA TRETHEWEY Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.
G.K. CHESTERTON But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once los...
JOHN ADAMS Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lo...
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lo...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU People who come here without regard to the law, we can only expect they're not going to abide by all...
ASSEMBLYMAN CHRISTOPHER CONNORS 10. Comparison is the root of all feelings of inferiority. The moment you begin examining other peop...
JAMES C. DOBSON When love once pleads admission to our hearts,
(In spite of all the virtue we can boast),
The ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Once you begin to feel that nearness to God, the next thing is to begin to submit yourself to God at...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all
The other feigned to be.
The flippant Frenchman speaks: ...
MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS One does not arrest Voltaire.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Once companies begin to outsource, they never go back.
BARRY LAM Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.
PAULO COELHO (Brazil) wasn't the reason we lost.
AARON BAKER If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his
merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
DENNIS MILLER Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential...
ROBERT COLLIER Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the e...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK It's a loss. We are 2-1. What happened last year doesn't matter. We beat them once and lost to them ...
ALAN FANECA Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am e...
CAROLYN WARNER Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.
SAINT BARTHOLOMEW Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true.
JOAN RIVERS Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true.
SAINT BARTHOLOMEW Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
LOUIS ARAGON Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
CHARLES MONROE SCHULZ Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
CHARLES M. SCHULTZ Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. People begin to feel more distant and disconnected, and often times, they begin to feel unsafe. We h...
HAL HEIDT God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
VOLTAIRE I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock ...
VOLTAIRE Getting four hits and striking out 11 times is the reason we lost.
TIM BROWN When you begin to reason with the Lord, your attitude to the issues of life will change.
JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.
NALINI SINGH ... never engage to play with a troubled mind or excited emotions. Lucidity of mind is crucial and o...
EMERY LEE Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you pro...
ROBERT COLLIER Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you pro...
GEORGE CLEMENCEAU Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the belief...
MORRIS RAPHAEL COHEN These kinds of tactics are precisely the reason why people have lost faith in politics. That's unfor...
ANGIE PACCIONE The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or
addresses, which amount only to complimen...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.
RYAN BETHENCOURT All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE What is there left once you have lost your manliness?
DAVID LAGERCRANTZ Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrai...
HOPE MIRRLEES There is no reason to be intimidated because once I get inside these lines, anything can happen. Peo...
JAMELLE CORNLEY It won't come all at once. It will be a staged rollout, starting with the top 50 markets, which we w...
BOB EZRIN It won't come all at once. It will be a staged rollout, starting with the top 50 markets, which we w...
BOB EZRIN Be lost. Give up. Give In. in the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. be lost. Be ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB But are you finding monastic history a very compelling reason to live?"
"I'm not human," he sai...
RACHEL HARTMAN Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.
VALENTINO ROSSI If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does ex...
ELIZABETH KALES But that will be removed once we begin laying the foundation for the new building. Our plan is to be...
DOUG WILCOX There’s no reason to worry.
-Keeper of the Lost Cities
SHANNON MESSENGER The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
ALBERT EINSTEIN There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.
JEFFREY EUGENIDES Before the injuries, we were a tight unit with the roles clearly defined. But once we lost players, ...
MICKEY ARTHUR For even the ordinary well-read person, the French Enlightenment is largely restricted to the three ...
MICHAEL DIRDA But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love;
No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, L...
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