#reason

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#approve #dislike #find #good #hundred

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#good #more #must #reason #solitary

The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation. ↗

— William Bell Riley

#evolution #fact #first #hypothesis #important

I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#done #enjoyed #i #long #reasonable

I think one of the reasons that we like conspiracy theories is I think that we like to feel like there is a group of people who are so smart and powerful that they can pull the wool over an entire country or in fact even an entire world's eyes. That certainly makes us feel like somehow we're protected, even if it's not in our best interest. ↗

— Jason Ritter

#certainly #conspiracy #country #entire #entire country

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

#fearing #future #his #life #man

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#anything #concentrate #dabble #deciding #direct

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers. ↗

— Cokie Roberts

#declaration #diminished #generals #independence #men

One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility. ↗

— William Petersen

#audience #fifty #fifty percent #give #i

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis. ↗

— James Tobin

#career #challenging #economics #fascinating #i