#reason

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#common #looking #lord #makes #many

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#am #getting #going #him #i

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#justice #moral #must #only #poverty

The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#built #community #conflict #development #east

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#basis #capacity #complex #computational #explanation

It's also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that it is computationally capable. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#capable #dynamics #look #model #program

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. ↗

— John Locke

#knowledge #nothing #reasoning #truth #use

The constant influx of new cultures, new ideas and new ways of looking at old problems is a big part of the reason why America has been the most dynamic economy in the world for well over a century. ↗

— Gary Locke

#been #big #century #constant #cultures

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. ↗

— John Locke

#into #men #preservation #property #reason

So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#fend #flatter #generally #just #off