#reason

Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#best #changed #convinced #i #reason

The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord. ↗

— Joseph Prince

#because #commit #i #i love #lord

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#all things #augments #because #continually #deeds

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#dangerous #man #most #play #plaything

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#blame #causes #completely #conscience #exposed

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#gestures #listen #mankind #picturesque #rather

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. ↗

— Ken Olsen

#any #computer #his #home #individual

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. ↗

— Charles Olson

#american #both #defer #envy #i

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science. ↗

— Heinz R. Pagels

#commitment #i #like #occult #other

One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#already #am #art #because #boring