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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, REASON, passion, and desire.	Aristotle
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no REASON.	Ralph Waldo Emerson
All power of fancy over REASON is a degree of insanity. Though this is madness, yet there is method in’t.	William Shakespeare
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to REASON.	Publilius Syrus
As long as I have a want, I have a REASON to live, satisfaction is death.	George Bernard Shaw
Every politician ought to sacrifice to the graces, and to join compliance with REASON.	Edmund Burke
Few women are dump enough to listen to REASON.	William Feather
For in REASON, all government without the consent of the governed, is the very definition of slavery.	Jonathan Swift
Give your decision, never your REASON; your decisions may be right, your REASONs are sure to be wrong.	Lord Mansfield
Great acts thrive when REASON guides the will.	Fletcher
Have we eaten on the insane root That takes the REASON prisoner ?	William Shakespeare : Macbeth
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his REASON.	Cicero
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his REASON is weak.	Michel De Montaigne
He who will not REASON, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.	Sir William Drummond
Human REASON needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.	Thomas Mann