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  1. Markus Zusak _ Underdog

    We don't need a point, son. We're juvenile, we're dirty, we don't have girls, we have noses full of snot, throats sore as hell, we've got scabs on us, we suffer bouts of acne, we've got no girls ... What more reasons do we need?
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  2. Fulton J. Sheen _ Life is Worth Living

    The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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  3. Rebecca Goldstein _ Plato at the Googleplex: Why

    ...Plato conceived of philosophy as necessarily gregarious rather than solitary. The exposure of presumptions is best done in company, the more argumentative the better. This is why discussion around the table is so essential. This is why philosophy must be argumentative. It proceeds by way of arguments, and the arguments are argued over. Everything is aired in the bracing dialectic wind stirred by many clashing viewpoints. Only in this way can intuitions that have their source in societal or personal idiosyncrasies be exposed and questioned. ... There can be nothing like "Well, that's what I was brought up to believe," or "I just feel that it's right," or "I am privy to an authoritative voice whispering in my ear," or "I'm demonstrably smarter than all of you, so just accept that I know better here." The discussion around the seminar table countenances only the sorts of arguments and considerations that can, in principle, make a claim on everyone who signs on to the project of reason: appealing to, evaluating, and being persuaded by reasons. {pp. 38-39}
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  4. John Updike _ Trust Me

    But cities aren't like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea."
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  5. Jeannette Walls _ Half Broke Horses

    Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.
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