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We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.


Henry Bolingbroke

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LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id...
GARY F EVANS... The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic ...
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ERIN HIGGINS Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there c...
CLIVE BELL The reason to forgive ourselves is not because we feel like it or because we want to see ourselves a...
SUE AUGUSTINE Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON You can deal with an emotion based on reason, but who can control an unreasonable emotion?
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JEREMY BENTHAM The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?
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CARL EVERETT We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom c...
KARL POPPER We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom c...
KARL POPPER We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
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EMILY THOMAS The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The only reason I can think of is that the students are happy with the job we have done.
JAMES TOUCHTON The only reason we can come up with is that they are being targeted because it is a religious club.
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ALISON CROGGON The reason why we get educated is so that we can take shit.
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CHRIS TUCKER We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
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SOURCE UNKNOWN It's not really definitive evidence. But on the other hand, what do we do while we wait for definiti...
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CAN DüNDAR Divers have found there is no air left in the holds of the ship. That means sea water has filled the...
CAN KARACA They must be all dead, if there is anybody else in those holds.
CAN KARACA There is little hope to find them alive.
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Gümüş bir tüy dikmek için manzaraya!
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ROMéO DALLAIRE That was the only reason. You wake up every day and find a reason to go on. My reason is I have kids...
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ALEXANDER POPE The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason,...
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BRIAN GIONTA The only reason he can miss you is because he’s choosing, every day, not to be with you.
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DIMITAR TSANCHEV Unshakable faith is only that which can face reason in all human epochs.
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HENRY FIELDING Republic of letters.
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AARON HENRY if we don't protect them, we're not going to protect this country.
AARON HENRY I'm hoping. I've tried to carry myself that way because the struggle was much more than just breakin...
AARON HENRY The past few years you could see something just wasn't adding up,
AARON HENRY There has been a reevaluation of our slave philosophy that permitted us to be satisfied with the lef...
AARON HENRY When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. Wh...
HENRY TWELLS If we want to boost border security, we have to help law enforcement agencies beef up their resource...
HENRY CUELLAR Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?
HENRY MILLER Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to ...
HENRY MILLER A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It o...
HENRY MILLER All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can ...
HENRY MILLER A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and ...
HENRY MILLER I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page...
HENRY MILLER