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~ A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of a friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and indeed, all the sweets of life. ~

Joseph Addison 1672

~ No passion so effectually robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. ~

Edmund Burke

~ We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. ~

Rudyard Kipling

~ Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason. ~

Douglas Adams

~ A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of a friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and indeed, all the sweets of life. ~

Joseph Addison 1672

~ Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes from society. ~

Daniel Webster

~ Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse. ~

Norman Vincent Peale 1898

~ A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of a friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and indeed, all the sweets of life. ~

Joseph Addison 1672

~ Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy. ~

Marguerite De Valois

~ Faith is reason grown courageous. ~

Sherwood Eddy

~ Faith... must be enforced by reason.... When faith becomes blind it dies. ~

Mahatma Gandhi

~ The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. ~

Albert Einstein

~ The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly. ~

G.K. Chesterton

~ Habit is stronger than reason ~

George Santayana

~ I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone... they will be forced to deal with pain. ~

James Arthur Baldwin

~ Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. ~

Dr. Ralph Gerard

~ Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place. ~

Billy Crystal

~ Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader ~

John Dryden

~ Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. ~

Bertrand Russell

~ The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get. ~

Jim Rohn

~ Reason is the enemy of faith ~

Martin Luther

~ An angry man is again angry with himself, when he returns to reason ~

Publilius Syrus

~ Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. ~

Abraham J. Heschel

~ Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. ~

R. Buckminster Fuller

~ People often overestimate what they can reasonably achieve in a year. But they vastly underestimate what they can achieve in 5 years. ~

Steve Pavlina

~ Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason. ~

John Wesley

~ We often think of peace as the absence of war; that if the powerful countries would reduce their arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we see our own minds - our prejudices, fears, and ignorance. Even if we transported all the bombs to the moon, the roots of war and the reasons for bombs would still be here, in our hearts and minds, and sooner or later we would make new bombs. Seek to become more aware of what causes anger and separation, and what overcomes them. Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully ~

Thich Nhat Hanh

~ Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason. ~

Betty Williams

~ I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side ~

Katharine Butler Hathaway

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