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“Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.”

Kind Ideas Reason Fall Found Belief Existence Quality Conscious Immortality Associates Quality Of Life Falling Off Continuance

Author:Albert J. Nock

“I think real life couples on screen are kind of deadly. For the most part, they're kind of deadly. You'd be surprised. Unless they're falling in love onscreen for the first time, you don't have quite the same energy for some reason.”

Thinking Firsts Kind Real Reason Fall Energy Couple First Time Falling In Love Screens Real Life

Author:Amy Poehler

“Iran is also engaged in the fight against ISIL for reasons of its own that include a desire not to see a reasonably friendly government in Baghdad falling. But it also includes its desire not to have ISIL's ideology spread in the region where it lives”

Reason Government Desire Fall Fighting Spread Ideology Engaged Regions Friendly Iran Baghdad Isil

Author:David Ignatius

“Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person, the consistently reasonable man.”

Men Persons Reason Fall Love Is Activity Falling In Love Reasonable Consistently Forbidden Tiresome Reasonable Man

Author:Arthur Eddington

“Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!”

Years Children Reason Light Age Pain Past Fall Dark Pay Laughing Honor Profound Casts Old Age Fifty Rays Blindness Alas Trembling Flicker Deafness Gout

Author:Pierre-Jean de Beranger

“Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.”

Reason Light Lasts Faces Death Fall Steps Darkness Mines Thee Vain Surround Shade Veils

Book:A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies

Source: A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies

“There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife. He that deserts the latter, and gives himself up entirely to the guidance of the former, will certainly fall into many pitfalls and quagmires, like him who walks by flashes of lightning, rather than the steady beams of the sun.”

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“People fall out of love, or get married for the wrong reasons. People change. The older generation - they got married and had a kid when they were 20. How do you know who you are when you're 20?”

People Knows Reason Kids Fall Generations Married Who You Are Falling In Love Do You Know Wrong Reasons Older Generation

Author:Kellan Lutz

“Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number of relations that it must regulate -- something like squaring the circle, or finding perpetual motion? That is the reason why, wearied of the struggle, you fall back on absolutism and force.”

Source: General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century

“But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by their mis-reasoning, or by trusting them that reason wrong, fall upon false and absurd generall rules.”

Men Reason Fall Conditions Absurd Reasoning Prudence

Book:Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition

Source: Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition

“You may well ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or the falling to pieces of a people to set down what they have witnessed for the benefit of unknown heirs or of generations infinitely remote; or, if you please, just to get the sight out of their heads.”

Source: The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford: The good soldier. Selected memories. Poems

“I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. Or the fear of heretics...What's happening is that each year our old flat earth of conventional reason becomes less and less adequate to handle the experiences we have and this is creating wide-spread feelings of topsy-turviness. As a result we're getting more and more people in irrational areas of thought...occultism, mysticism, drug changes and the like...because they feel an inadequacy in classical reason to handle what they know are real experiences.”

“In the specific case of abortion, the matter is particularly easy in that no woman wants a late abortion. Once abortion was made legal, the age of the aborted fetus went down. The slope slipped in the other direction. If we legalize RU-486 and other similar new drugs, the age will fall to one week or less and start approaching zero. The slippery slope will slide in the other direction. The only reason we have late abortions is because we make early abortion difficult.”

Ifs Want Made Matter Reason Age Fall Easy Difficult Cases Week Atheism Drug Late Abortion Zero Slides Women Want Slippery Slopes Fetus Slippery Slope

Author:Garrett Hardin

“Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.”

Men Reason Fall Sound Silence Share Influence Sufficient

Book:Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art

Source: Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art

“The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. ... Is this true?”

Real Reason Fall Travel Stones Falling In Love Flesh Translate Inhibitions

Book:An Accidental Autobiography

Source: An Accidental Autobiography

“[This world] exists nonnecessarily, improbably, and causelessly. It exists for absolutely no reason at all. It is inexplicably and stunningly actual . . . The impact of this captivated realisation upon me is overwhelming. I am completely stunned. I take a few dazed steps in the dark meadow, and fall among the flowers. I lie stupefied, whirling without comprehension in this world through numberless worlds other than this one.”

World Reason Lying Religion Fall Dark Steps This World Flower Impact No Reason Overwhelming Comprehension Meadows Realisation Stunned Captivated Dazed

Author:Quentin Smith

“War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason, but an appeal to arms; that on women, without a voice to protest, must fall the burden. It is easier to die than to send a son to death.”

Men War Reason Government Dies Fall Voice Son Arms Easier Burden Curious Appeals Protest Fearful Anomalies

Book:Kings, queens and pawns: an American woman at the front

Source: Kings, queens and pawns: an American woman at the front

“I believe that all technological societies tend to self-destruct. The reason is that the very things that make us a successful technological society, such as our curiosity, our ambition and determination, will also cause us to fall.”

Believe Self Reason Fall I Believe Causes Successful Ambition Determination Curiosity Technological Self Destruct

Author:Pete Seeger

“One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties, their wars through the years was they had Shakespeare to fall back on. And they speak well in England.”

Years Wells War Reason Fall Speak Loss Difficulty England Strikes Disaster Empires Fall Back Through The Years

Author:Norman Mailer

“I always knew she was being funny, but when I tell my therapist that my mom played the trust game with me and let me fall on the ground, my therapist does not find that funny. She's like, "That's the reason for everything! That's why you have such a hard time with trust!" And I'm like, "I don't really have a hard time with trust. I thought it was funny."”

Doe Hard Reason Fall Games Mom Let Me My Mom Hard Times Therapists Being Funny Reason For Everything

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics.”

Ifs Should Reason Play Fall Novel Drink Wine Falling In Love Dinner Reason Why No Reason Statistics Leisure Good Wine Influenza

Author:Jerome K. Jerome

“Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is. We fall in love with someone for a reason. That reason is either temporary or permanent.”

Reason Choices Fall Love Is Falling In Love Permanent Temporary

Author:Mark Patterson

“I say, "Look, I'm here now. There must be a reason I'm here." If that's fatalistic, be that as it may. Where my work is, is where my life is, and if we're falling in the ocean, we're falling into the ocean.”

Ifs Looks May Reason Life Is Fall Ocean

Author:Cass Elliot

“I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.”

Mean Soul Self Reason Fall Evil Objects Gains Destruction Shame Sake Seeking Ruins Fallen Motive No Reason Wickedness Foul Shameful Self Destruction Depraved Firmament

Book:The Confessions

Source: The Confessions

“It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.”

Men Wells May Reason Fall Easy Forget Principles Accounts Length Absurdity

Book:The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...

Source: The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...

“time stood still. I fell into that beloved space that writers fall into, the reason most write, as it's better than drugs or alcohol ... a high without hangover, an affair without pain.”

Writing Stills Reason Pain Fall Space Drug Affair Alcohol Beloved Hangover Without Pain

Author:Meg O'Brien

“This thing about you that you think is your flaw - it's the reason I'm falling in love with you.”

Thinking Reason Fall Love You Falling In Love Flaws I Love You Been In Love I Fall In Love Falling For You Falling In Love With You

Book:This Girl

Source: This Girl