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• Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.

  William Morris

  Men, Order, Imagination

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.179, Cambridge University Press

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• A reasonable being might think that he and I could find some common ground; have a cup of coffee and compare our Passengers, exchange trade talk and chitchat about dismemberment techniques. But no: Doakes wanted me dead. And I found it difficult to share his point of view.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Coffee, Thinking, Views

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.6, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• There are a handful of barbecue seafood shacks on the beach at Hat Nai Yang, which is a fabulous place to have dinner. It's very much run for locals and they serve the catch of the day, which might be lobster, white snapper or squid. It's ridiculously reasonable, too.

  Tony Parsons

  Running, Beach, White

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• Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

  Sam Harris

  World, Claims

  "Science Must Destroy Religion" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2006.

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• [I]t being reasonable and just, I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction: for by the fundamental law of nature, man being to be preserved as much as possible, when all cannot be preserved, the safety of the innocent is to be preferred: and one may destroy a man who makes war upon him, or has discovered an enmity to his being, for the same reason that he may kill a Wolf or a lion.

  John Locke

  War, Men, Should Have

  John Locke (1956). “The Second Treatise of Government: (An Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent and End of Civil Government), And, A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.20, Library of Alexandria

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• When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world.

  John Locke

  Philosophy, Simple, Men

  John Locke (1824). “The Works of John Locke: In Nine Volumes”, p.188

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• Long discourses, and philosophical readings, at best, amaze and confound, but do not instruct children. When I say, therefore, that they must be treated as rational creatures, I mean that you must make them sensible, by the mildness of your carriage, and in the composure even in the correction of them, that what you do is reasonable in you, and useful and necessary for them; and that it is not out of caprichio, passion or fancy, that you command or forbid them any thing.

  John Locke

  Children, Philosophical, Reading

  "Some Thoughts Concerning Education" by John Locke, (Sec. 81), 1693.

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• ...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.

  Steve Allen

  Religion, Assumption, Should

  Steve Allen (1998). “Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking : with 101 Ways to Reason Better & Improve Your Mind”

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• So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.

  Michael Howard

  Peace, War, Government

  Michael Howard (1962). “The Causes of Wars and Other Essays”, p.25, Harvard University Press

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• Love isn't blind. Love is reasonable. God is pure love, but He is also pure reason. If you separate reason from faith you'll end in violence. Either way, if you have a purely rationalistic scheme that is atheistic, for instance Communism was for social justice. Fascism was for the nation-state, which isn't automatically a bad thing.

  Francis George

  Love Is, Justice, Way

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• Us gals need to stay in and just change the way it works, so men aren't being workaholics and avoiding life and relationships, and they can make films in a reasonable amount of time, so you can have a family and a life outside of work. And have more balanced, content-driven, enjoyable movies.

  Joan Cusack

  Men, Needs, Avoiding Life

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.

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• We live in a world where virtually everybody expects there's going to be some reasonable therapy for virtually any situation.

  Dean Kamen

  World, Situation, Therapy

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. June 9, 2009.

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• A proof is that which convinces a reasonable man; a rigorous proof is that which convinces an unreasonable man.

  Mark Kac

  Men, Proof, Unreasonable

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• Richard Dawkins says he can't be sure God doesn't exist. Well, you know what I do when I'm not sure about something? I go on a big crusade about it and write a bunch of books on the subject. No, wait, that sounds more like what someone with a mental disorder would do. That's one of the crazy things about lots of atheists: They're whole movement is supposed to be about being logical and reasonable, yet they tend to rail against religion is a very mindless way that doesn't seem to serve any more purpose than a tantrum. Perhaps I just don't understand their strong faith in not having faith.

  Frank J. Fleming

  Strong, Atheist, Crazy

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• If your aims as a donor are modest, you can accomplish an awful lot. When your aims become elevated beyond a reasonable level, you not only don't accomplish much, but you can cause a great deal of damage.

  Irving Kristol

  Levels, Awful, Damage

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• Tough management is a way to approach work. It is a practical, reasonable, and organized way to get to decisions more easily, make the numbers on a consistent basis, have those around you understand where you stand, and increase the business.

  Chuck Martin

  Numbers, Decision, Way

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• For memetics to be a reasonable research programme, it should be the case that copying, and differential success in causing the multiplication of copies, overwhelmingly plays the major role in shaping all or at least most of the contents of culture. Evolved domain-specific psychological dispositions, if there are any, should be at most a relatively minor factor that could be considered part of background conditions.

  Dan Sperber

  Play, Copying, Culture

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• Everything that breathes, breathes by air and cannot live without air; similarly all reasonable free creatures live by the Holy Spirit, as though by air, and cannot live without Him. "Every soul is quickened by the Holy Spirit." Recognise that the Holy Spirit stands in the same relation to your soul as air stands in relation to your body.

  John of Kronstadt

  Air, Soul, Body

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• An armed republic submits less easily to the rule of one of its citizens than a republic armed by foreign forces. Rome and Sparta were for many centuries well armed and free. The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom. Among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible. It is not reasonable to suppose that one who is armed will obey willingly one who is unarmed; or that any unarmed man will remain safe among armed servants.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Rome, Evil

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• I urge everyone to be patient and reasonable and I warn against shooting from the hip in the truest sense of the term. Pressure and dialogue are needed.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Shooting, Pressure, Hips

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• My family thought if I spent time in the military, I'd become more reasonable, a bit calmer. But I've always been extreme in what I do - both as a believer and a nonbeliever.

  Shahin Najafi

  Military, My Family, Believer

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A life where bots tell us what to do every second - get up, go to work, do this, have kids with this person - is completely reasonable. Bots determine our economic opportunities; We have already accepted that. All the decision making would be done by bots and we wouldn't even notice.

  Daniel Suarez

  Kids, Opportunity, Decision

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.

  Jonathan Swift

  Philosophy, Book, Writing

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.583, Delphi Classics

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• I'm not disciplined in terms of scheduling. I work best late at night, but I can't do that when I'm on a TV show - our hours are roughly 10-6:30, so I have to go to sleep at a reasonable hour. So I'll sometimes write fiction for an hour or two in the evenings, or several hours on the weekend afternoons - unless I'm actively writing a script for the show I'm working on, in which case there's no time to write fiction at all.

  Nick Antosca

  Writing, Sleep, Weekend

  Interview with Shane Jones, logger.believermag.com. September 16, 2013.

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• President Bush will go down in history as the torture president. He has now defied a majority of Congress to allow the use of interrogation techniques that any reasonable observer would call torture.

  Jennifer Daskal

  Interrogation Techniques, President, Majority

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