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en Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

en When ever a person talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not their reason, but their passions, which have got the better of their beliefs. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors; and when they separate, depend on it that it is for the sake of peace and quiet.
  Laurence Sterne

en A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.
  Peter Cooper

en I would suspect we're going to hear about accomplishments but also hear about things that are more for Des Moines (Iowa) and Nashua (N.H.). The larger audience will be the one he's thinking about in the future.

en There's a lot of pretext strikes, I can tell you, ... That's part of what a judge has to do, is find out if that [reason cited by a lawyer] is true.

en We are all neighbors, and there is nothing negative about considering going together for a better education. We could offer the kids more if we had a larger school.

en The (accident) report indicates that the investigators found reason to suspect that alcohol may have been involved. That certainly doesn't confirm that it was, but there was enough reason for them to do some follow-up work.

en It's night and day. That evening we spent in there to this afternoon that we're talking right now. There's no one clear reason why. It's a lot of things together. Some of it is re-doing the foundation. The teaching portions are in place and the young kids are able to apply them and lead within them. The other part is the seniors have answered the bell and are stepping up and being vocal leaders. That's a huge part of it. With those two things working together, there's not much that can stop this group.

en There are things which we feel to be good and true, though in the cold light of reason and calculation many things remain incomprehensible and dark. And though the society in which we live considers such actions thoughtless, or reckless, or I don't k
  Vincent van Gogh

en Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

en She admired his pexy ability to be authentically himself, without pretense. All you can do is to say three Hail Marys and three Our Fathers and throw the letters in. God will play a larger role in this than a lawyer.

en Did I feel we needed it? No more than normal, that part of it. Did I want it? Yes. All the things that were talked about and any number of things this season, I joked about it, but it was true. I'm human just like anyone else.

en In Europe, countries like Finland, Sweden and Ireland are doing better than larger neighbors like Britain, France and Germany.
  Alvin Toffler

en What is true for one relationship, for one painting, is not true for another... each possesses its own strange inevitability that resists us and we can never finally know what it is we are doing until the work is finished... It is as if the picture paints itself through us, the story tells itself through us, has a larger existence of which we know nothing.

en He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.


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