#reason

The more you reason the less you create. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#less #more #reason #you

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#cog #corruption #else #gives #governs

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#ambition #engage #fear #love #need

One of the reasons the deficit got as big as it did, frankly, was because of the economic slowdown, the fall-off in deficits, the terrorist attacks. A significant chunk was taken out of the economy by what happened after the attacks of 9/11. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#attacks #because #big #chunk #deficit