I guess that's one of the reasons that you do it - work all the time - because it's sort of a high to find something that really works.
Careful writing is important for many reasons, not least that intelligent but hurried reporters will trust the presser, resulting in a cascade of secondary damage.
Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.
I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.
It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office.
No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer.
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would look awful if it were just for the money.
Let me tell you, if you're ever making a decision and the principle reason you'll do it is because of money, then it is absolutely the incorrect decision.
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.
By the way, I'm not a vegetarian. I have a lot of respect for people who are vegetarian for religious or ethical reasons.
The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.
But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.
