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• It is true that the successful quest for wisdom might lead to the result that wisdom is not the one thing needful. But this result would owe its relevance to the fact that it is the result of the quest for wisdom: the very disavowal of reason must be reasonable disavowal.

  Leo Strauss

  Successful, Quests, Might

  Leo Strauss (1953). “Natural Right and History”, p.36, University of Chicago Press

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• All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.

  Winston Churchill

  Interesting, Wish, Want

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• Just when summer gets perfect-fresh nights, soft sun, casual breezes, crushingly full and quietly cooling trees, empty beaches, and free weekends- it ends. Life is like that too. Just when we get it right, it starts to change. The job gets easy and we know just how to do it, and they tell us we're retired. The children grow up and get reasonable and they leave home, just when it's nice to have them around. . . . That's life on the edge of autumn. And that's beautiful-if we have the humility for it.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Life, Beautiful, Summer

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• The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

  Karl Marx

  Essence, Moral, Presses

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  He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

  John Milton

  Book, Reading, Library

  Areopagitica (1644)

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• Someday I'd like to be a father, not of a human child, but something more reasonable.

  Dov Davidoff

  Children, Father, Someday

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• Who said love was reasonable?

  Johanna Lindsey

  Said

  Johanna Lindsey (2007). “Captive of My Desires”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm a reasonable guy, but I've just experienced some very unreasonable things.

  Kurt Russell

  Guy, Unreasonable

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• To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

  Peter Ustinov

  Wise, Gentle, Portions

  "Still More of Who Said That?". Book by Renie Gee, 1981.

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• The history of the past fifty years, and longer, indicates that a diversified holding of representative common stocks will prove more profitable over a stretch of years than a bond portfolio, with one important provisio that the shares must be purchased at reasonable market levels, that is, levels that are reasonable in the light of fairly well-defined standards derived from past experience.

  Benjamin Graham

  Past, Light, Years

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

  Orson Scott Card

  Liberty, Impossible, Argument

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• Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Firsts, Disputes

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledge of the past so that one may use it in experiencing the present and aspiring to the future--all of these, it would seem reasonable to suppose, are essential to an educated man. To these must be added another--knowledge of the products of our artistic heritage that mark the history of our esthetic wonder and delight.

  Jerome Bruner

  Education, Past, Men

  Jerome Seymour Bruner (1979). “On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand”, p.122, Harvard University Press

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• History is rarely made by reasonable men.

  Terry Goodkind

  Men, Made, Reasonable Man

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Blood Of The Fold”, p.324, Head of Zeus

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• The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of confidence.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Honor, Liberty, Foundation

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.81, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I believe in a reasonable amount of "right to bear arms". But private citizens of the United States are not allowed to own nuclear weapons. I always wanted a nuclear weapon, if I could have gotten one. I'm every other kind of power, but I'm not a nuclear power.

  Ted Turner

  Funny, Clever, Smart

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• when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Mean, Views, Speed

  Alice Thomas Ellis (1988). “Home Life Three”, Gerald Duckworth

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• You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Use, Born, Parasites

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.194, Penguin

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• May we not have a picture of Christ, who has a true body? By no means; because, though he has a true body and a reasonable soul, John 1:14, yet his human nature subsists in his divine person, which no picture can represent, Psalm 45:2. Why ought all pictures of Christ to be abominated by Christians? Because they are downright lies, representing no more than the picture of a mere man: whereas, the true Christ is God-man

  James Fisher

  Christian, Lying, Mean

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• I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

  Clint Eastwood

  Western Movie, Western Films, Cowboy Movie

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody understands at the time--and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, Las Vegas, Long

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.120, Pan Macmillan

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• In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe as we move through a mildly good cocktail party, picking up the good bits of food or conversation, bearing with the rest, going home when it comes to seem the reasonable thing to do. Art, at those moments when it feels most like art -- when we feel most alive, most alert, most triumphant -- is less like a cocktail party than a tank full of sharks.

  John Gardner

  Art, Moving, Home

  John Gardner (2010). “The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers”, p.35, Vintage

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• Have you ever observed somebody go through a religious conversion? The person seems perfectly reasonable to you and has no particular concern for religion. Then a parent, friend or child dies or he gets a serious illness or is involved in a car accident. In just a matter of weeks, he seeks out and finds the answers to all of life's questions and starts studying and spouting all sorts of doctrine. During such a window of vulnerability, religion can commandeer a person's brain.

  Darrel Ray

  Religious, Children, Serious Illness

  "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture". Book by Darrel Ray, 2009.

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• Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.

  Robertson Davies

  Knowledge, Order, Healthy

  Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin

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• Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Mean, Religion, Belief

  "The Faith of a Heretic". Book by Walter Kaufmann, 1961.

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