#reason

But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in. ↗

— Roone Arledge

#boxing #boxing match #cover #doing #ears

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#accordingly #care #depends #entertain #guard

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#arm #disturb #future #meet #never

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#ages #beginning #cannot #even #her

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#fort #fortitude #marshal #reason #thought

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#faith #fatal #immediately #instrument #interests

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#america #any #country #criticize #exactly

But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#back #board #difference #family #get

Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#business owners #capital #cards #credit #credit cards

People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons. They'd introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I didn't want to stand out. I wanted to blend in. ↗

— Amanda Beard

#else #friends #i #introduce #me