#reason

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#electricity #humanity #justice #love #me

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

The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted. ↗

— Walid Jumblatt

#blair #bush #consequence #destruction #doubted

Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them? ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#any #because #believing #dignity #give

Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere. ↗

— Ice Cube

#everywhere #know #no reason #over #people

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#expect #good #hand #i #i think

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#compromise #fight #going #hard #reasonable

If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence. ↗

— Will Cuppy

#call #does #instinct #intelligence #reason

I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#because #comforting #done #going #i

I'm hyperactive, and I went in the studio and I would just start making records, for no reason. ↗

— Puff Daddy

#just #making #no reason #reason #records