I actually wanted to play the violin before I had polio, and then afterwards, there was no reason not to.
There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
You know, the taxing authority of the United States is our most powerful weapon. You know, the reason we separated from England was because the British were using it abusively.
For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.
Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.
The major reason for Keynes's rejection of communism was simply that he could scarcely identify with the grubby proletariat.
You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.
And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn't believe it!
A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy.
For some reason, no one wanted to give me money to make a movie written in early modern English that involved a lot of puritans praying - even if it did involve a witch.
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
No one quits a successful show without a valid reason.
There's no reason the Rangers can't get to the top.
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.
Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
