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Samuel Butler Quote: 'If you follow reason far enough ...'

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As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.
Albert Claude
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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
Baruch Spinoza
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Helen Keller
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The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and humans are emitting ever more greenhouse gases.
Nicholas Stern
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
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If you go back far enough and get a wider enough picture of history, we have let go of many things that follow a religious narrative. We don't burn witches anymore. Most people would consider that barbaric. We don't sacrifice human beings, which was a religious act practiced by numerous cultures on this planet.
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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.


Nikki Giovanni
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How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.


Terry Brooks
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Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
Edgard Varese
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There's only so far you can go before you say enough is enough.


Jennifer Granholm
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One of the illusions that we live by is that we can really know anybody else, and we're often surprised by traits in people that we thought we knew very well. The struggle to overcome loneliness, which is sort of our universal burden, leads us to leap to conclusions about who other people are.
Thomas McGuane
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Oddly enough, I'm not religious but I'm also very fond of St Peter's in Rome. When I'm there, I always know there's a good meal not far away.
Jonathan Pryce
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Though many men would be content to follow Christ by taking up their cross, few would be willing to follow Him by denying their reason.
Vincent McNabb
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Look, nobody is ever exactly the same as anybody else. You're handed the cards you are for a particular reason, so you follow that path and see where it takes you.
Rumer Willis
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I always figure, you come to a party, you gotta know somebody. And somebody leads to another person and leads to somebody else, somebody else. That's one of things that I really enjoy doing.
Isiah Whitlock, Jr.
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In the best writers, the outward-reaching interest in the 'found subject' leads back at a hairpin to some uncomfortable inner recognition that the writer has journeyed very far to see; he comes home half-dead.
Amity Gaige
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I certainly don't follow fashion. I think fashion, as far as the industry and the whole world that surrounds it, is quite vile, and I'm repelled by it.
Mika
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No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.


Harold Hamm
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When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes.


Robert Gottlieb
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