| destruction |  Gordon Brown says the threat of weapons of mass destruction was not the reason he backed the invasion of Iraq. |
| determination | I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of.
George Bentham
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| determined | 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.
Aristotle
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| devoted | This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
Aristotle
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| Dick Butkus | The real reason for coming to Montour is my love and respect for football.
Dick Butkus |
| Dick Cheney | If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force.
Dick Cheney |
| Dick Wolf | The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.
Dick Wolf |
| disclosure | Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
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| discrepancy | He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and his singular account of his father's dying words. |
| discussions | If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.
Jim Allchin
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| documentary | This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason.
Martin Bashir
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| Don Rose | The reason most people sweat is so they will not catch fire while they are making love.
Don Rose |
| Don Rose | The reason people sweat is so they won't catch fire when making love.
Don Rose |
| Donald Rumsfeld | Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.
Donald Rumsfeld |
| Donald Rumsfeld | Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.
Donald Rumsfeld |
| Donella Meadows | What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.
Donella Meadows |
| Dorothy Day | I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.
Dorothy Day |
| Dorothy Fields | Love is the reason you were born.
Dorothy Fields |
| Dorothy Fields | There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.
Dorothy Fields |
| Doug Larson | The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
Doug Larson |
