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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn't. Without my husband's help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.
In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
Planning my wedding and stuff, there's going to be reasons why people weren't there and nobody knows about why they're not going to be at my wedding.
It might be a selfish choice, but I find it quite difficult to design for individuals and prefer the distance of larger schemes. It's the same reason why, as a designer, I don't do wedding dresses.
One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.
I have a crusade against fondant, also shortening. There's no reason why wedding cakes can't taste good if you know what you're doing.
And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
I don't really have many regrets. I did miss a lot of the events in the days leading up to my sister's wedding because I was at a U17 camp. There were moments like that growing up when I felt like I focused too much on soccer. But that's probably the reason I am where I am today.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.
We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.
I trust people until they give me a reason not to trust them.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
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