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• It was strange how the heart clung to hope even when there was no reasonable basis for it, Morgan found. And how life went on.

  Mary Balogh

  Heart, Strange, Found

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• But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.

  Haruki Murakami

  Distance, Might, Feels

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• These prin­ciples laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never tell a lie to a man, but one may to a woman; that one must never cheat any one, but one may a husband; that one must never pardon an insult, but one may give one and so on. These principles were possibly not reasonable and not good, but they were of unfailing certainty, and so long as he adhered to them, Vronsky felt that his heart was at peace and he could hold his head up.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Husband, Lying, Heart

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• Margaret had always dreaded lest her courage should fail her in any emergency, and she should be proved to be, what she dreaded lest she was--a coward. But now, in this real great time of reasonable fear and nearness of terror, she forgot herself, and felt only an intense sympathy--intense to painfulness--in the interests of the moment.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Real, Coward, Emergencies

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1059, Delphi Classics

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• Who is Hunter Becker?" "Becker the Gory? Lighthouse Keepers? Boston?" "I would've preferred Becker the Easiley Surrendering or Becker the Quite Reasonable, but beyond that his name tells me nothing.

  Ilona Andrews

  Boston, Names, Hunters

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.130, Penguin

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• Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

  Shirley Jackson

  Fighting, Yield, Doctors

  Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.110, Penguin

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• It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.

  Peter Kreeft

  Crazy, Shakes, Suspects

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• I like to think of myself as a reasonable man. But I have buried too many friends in the too-recent past, and I have seen too many lies go unquestioned, and too many questions go unasked. There is a time when even reasonable men must begin to take unreasonable actions. To do anything else is to be less than human.

  Mira Grant

  Lying, Past, Men

  "Deadline: The Newsflesh Trilogy".

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• Reparations,” said Jem very suddenly, setting down the pen he was holding. Will looked at him in puzzlement. “Is this a game? We just blurt out whatever word comes next to mind? In that case mine is ‘genuphobia’. It means an unreasonable fear of knees.” “What’s the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?” inquired Jessamine.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Games, Mind

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Warlock,” he said. “I know who you are.” Magnus raised his eyebrows. “You do?” “Magnus Bane. Destroyer of the demon Marabas. Son of—” “Now,” said Magnus, quickly. “There’s no need to go into all of that.” “But there is.” The demon sounded reasonable, even amused. “If it is infernal assistance you require, why not summon your father?” Alec looked at Magnus with his mouth open.

  Cassandra Clare

  Father, Son, Eyebrows

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• The position of the Atheist is a clear and reasonable one. I know nothing about ‘God’ and therefore I do not believe in Him or in it; what you tell me about your God is self‐contradictory, and therefore incredible. I do not deny ‘God,’ which is an unknown tongue to me; I do deny your God, who is an impossibility. I am without God.

  Annie Besant

  Atheist, Believe, Self

  Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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• Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your state, if you are wise and civilized men; an instant suffices to disturb and annihilate that supposed wisdom of which you are so proud; an unexpected event, a sharp and sudden emotion of the soul will abruptly change the most reasonable and intelligent man into a raving idiot.

  Michel Foucault

  Wise, Men, Intelligent

  Michel Foucault (2001). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.201, Psychology Press

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• It seems to me that if you wish to apply laws to us, it were only reasonable to consult us on them, and from what you have read to me about Parliament, I do not think any dragons are invited to go there

  Naomi Novik

  Thinking, Dragons, Law

  Naomi Novik (2006). “His Majesty's Dragon: A Novel of Temeraire”, p.299, Del Rey

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• Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Exercise, Laughing, Might

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 2: To Paris and Prison”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Voice, Trying, Guarantees

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• You called me at four thirty-four....I hate four thirty-four. I think four thirty-four should be banned and replaced with something more reasonable, like, say, nine twelve.

  Darynda Jones

  Hate, Thinking, Twelve

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.17, Macmillan

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• It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all to soon, the very words "justice," "compassion," "society," "struggle," "evil," would be unheard echoes on an empty air.

  P. D. James

  Struggle, Compassion, Echoes

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.157, Vintage

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• Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt.

  Michael Connelly

  Jobs, Color, Ifs And

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• Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.

  Norton Juster

  Thinking, Order, Phantom Tollbooth

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.31, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Home, Heart, Long

  Madeleine L'Engle (1978). “A Swiftly Tilting Planet”, p.26, Macmillan

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• When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity.

  Charles Bukowski

  Suicide, Writing, Men

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

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• A wise man once told me- he’s a muslim by the way- that he has more in common with a jew than he does a fanatic of his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christian or a Buddhist or Hindu than he does with a fanatic of his own religion. In fact, he has more in common with a ration, reasonable-minded atheist than he does with a fanatic of his own religion

  Gregory David Roberts

  Christian, Wise, Buddhist

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• Katsa turned to Po with tears in her eyes. 'He'll be so angry.' 'He won't stay angry forever.' 'Won't he?' she said. 'People do sometimes.' 'Do they?' he said. 'Reasonable people? I hope that's not true.' Katsa gave him a funny look, but didn't answer. Resumed hugging herself and kicking things.

  Kristin Cashore

  Eye, People, Forever

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• That was a perfectly reasonable explanation," she said grumpily. "Perhaps my advisers don't lie to me." "Isn't that what you'd want?" asked Giddon. "Well, yes, but it doesn't elucidate my puzzle!" "If I may say so, Lady Queen," said Giddon, "it's not always easy to follow your conversation." "Oh, Giddon," she said, sighing. "If it's any comfort, I don't follow it either.

  Kristin Cashore

  Queens, Lying, Comfort

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.87, Penguin

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• No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.

  Atul Gawande

  Taken, Doctors, Perfection

  Atul Gawande (2010). “Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science”, p.74, Profile Books

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