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I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.

Claire Forlani

British actress

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

Timothy Radcliffe

And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn’t believe it!

Rod Steiger

American actor (1925-2002)

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Thomas Browne

The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.

Kenneth H. Cooper

From a technical point of view, there seemed to me to be absolutely no reason why – with the existing technology – we couldn’t do very high quality audio, because whereas the boom in digital graphics is ongoing, the boom in digital audio has already happened.

Thomas Dolby

English musician, producer, entrepreneur and teacher

Cricket was my reason for living.

Harold Larwood

But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That’s the reason why I was single.

Wilt Chamberlain

American basketball player (1936-1999)

The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed.

Stephen Cambone

American government official

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

Howard Zinn

American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker

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