Sentence examples for kills reason from inspiring English sources

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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.

"Books are not absolutely dead things," he wrote in his celebrated attack on censorship, Areopagitica, in 1644, "but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are". Anyone who kills a man, Milton said, kills "a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself".

"He who destroys a good book, kills reason itself," Milton wrote.

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By this time, Laurence found the killing beyond reason.

They came to kill the reason to live, every dream that you want to make true".

People were killed without reason".

"God did not say to man: You shall not kill without reason.

Prisoners are tried without representation, petitioners are quietly killed for reasons of state, others are harassed for religious causes.

No Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) review was required for this study because the DNA samples came from scat or animals killed for reasons other than research.

"There's a big step from killing cats for no reason to killing people," Mr. Martin responded.

For the terrorists in Paris, plaisir partagé was a reason to kill and kill and kill.

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