#reason

Like two side to a coin, there are two sides to life: your reason and emotional facets. ↗

— Ami Blackwelder

#emotion #life #reason #life

Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#criminal-law #defense #evidence #guilt #innocence

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that we've been so credulous. (So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new bamboozles rise.) ↗

— Carl Sagan

#truth #persistence

I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason. ↗

— Benjamin Moser

#mathematics #reason #biography

Women need a reason to have sex, while men just need an angle ↗

— Josh Stern

#humor-funny-absurd #me #need #reason #women

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#fact #god #immortality #men #personal

For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing. ↗

— Carmen Electra

#focus #hear #hurtful #praises #reason

One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers. ↗

— Andrew Fletcher

#best #careers #feel #making #music

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time. ↗

— Willie Tyler

#place #reason #same #second #strike

There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#because #bill #bill gates #cure #gates