There's a very good reason that governments aren't supposed to compete with private-enterprise companies. Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there: weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting events, a night on the town, prayer, a romantic dinner, mothers rocking their infants to sleep. . . music is a part of the fabric of everyday life.
Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.
It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.
Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
[On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having children is a socially useful act. Being female is not a preexisting condition.
The reason I'm not an alcoholic is I don't like to drink in front of the kids. . . and when you're away from them, who needs it?.
Before I met her, I drank and swore without reason. . . now I have a reason.
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the history of philosophy records-of Lobachevsky and Riemann, Gauss and Sylvester. Indeed, mathematics, the indispensable tool of the sciences, defying the senses to follow its splendid flights, is demonstrating today, as it never has been demonstrated before, the supremacy of the pure reason.
No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.
At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.
I got fired seven or eight times before I was 32. And of those seven or eight times, I got fired not for reasons of performance or incompetence; I got fired for personal, personality disagreement, whatever other reasons.
Haters are just confused admirers because they can't figure out the reason why everyone loves you.
Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
I've never done anything half-heartedly. It's the reason my comics did well. It's the reason my comics were drawn well. I can't do anything bad.
Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.
We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion.