Reasonable Quotes - Page 31

• Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

  Julia Child

  Wine, Maturity, Age

  Julia Child “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, Рипол Классик

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• Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Instant

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be ready to abandon it at the slightest provocation. should this certainty be lacking, we must tell ourselves that nothing is accomplished in warfare without daring; that the nature of war certainly does not let us see at all times where we are going; that what is probable will always be probable though at the moment it may not seem so; and finally, that we cannot be readily ruined by a single error, if we have made reasonable preparations.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, War, Errors

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• Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.

  Isaac Asimov

  Memories, Science, Intelligent

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

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• "Ju" means being natural or in other words the way which is natural and in accords with the truth of the universe and the one that human beings have to follow. Also, "Ju" may mean anything reasonable, just and honorable, accordingly noble: namely the realization of Truth , Good and Beauty.

  Kyuzo Mifune

  Mean, May, Way

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• This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

  Zig Ziglar

  Spiritual, Perseverance, Giving Up

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jun 08, 2012

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• He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.

  Bobby Jones

  Disappointment, Golf, Appreciate

  Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books

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• I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He smokes cannabis, what am I to do? He laughs it off when I try to tell him, he says it's not really harmful...' Of course you're half hoping the advice will be, 'Well, you know it's not that harmful; if you love him, if you talk to him about it, tell him maybe he should keep it in the garden shed or something,' you know, a reasonable point of view. But of course it was, 'No, no, all drugs are bad. Librium's good, Valium's good. But cannabis, ooooh!' I hate that unreasoned attitude.

  Paul McCartney

  Weed, Attitude, Hate

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• The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Sleep, Animal, Insomnia

  "This column will change your life: Can't sleep, don't sleep" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2010.

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• Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent.

  Robert Breault

  Kindness, Compassion, Doubt

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• If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate art of handling ideas. Psychology is now able to tell us with reasonable assurance that the most influential obstacle to freedom of thought and to new ideas is fear; and fear which can with inimitable art disguise itself as caution, or sanity, or reasoned skepticism, or on occasion even as courage.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Art, Freedom, Hero

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• It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or philosophical or reasonable. The race gets credit when the percentage of noble individuals is high.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Philosophical, Race, Class

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Book, Reading

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1967). “Selected Mark Twain-Howells letters, 1872-1910”

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• I think it's important to promote a culture of life. I think a hospitable society is a society where every being counts and every person matters. I believe the ideal world is one in which every child is protected in law and welcomed to life. I understand there's great differences on this issue of abortion. But I believe reasonable people can come together and put good law in place that will help reduce the number of abortions.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, Children, Believe

  Presidential debate in Tempe, Arizona, www.nytimes.com. October 13, 2004.

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• We're not going to spend taxpayers' money on abortion. This is an issue that divides America. But certainly reasonable people can agree on how to reduce abortions in America.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, America, Issues

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• It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead it seems more reasonable to try to establish a theoretical quantum mechanics, analogous to classical mechanics, but in which only relations between observable quantities occur.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Trying, Mechanic

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• A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Practice, Needs

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• A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

  E. W. Howe

  Motivational, Certainty, Probability

  Sinner Sermons (p. 23)

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• An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.

  A. P. Herbert

  Hope, Men, Miracle

  Uncommon Law "Act of God" (1935)

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• Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Holiday, Pay, Leisure

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1860, Princeton University Press

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• It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.

  Blaise Pascal

  Miracle, Impossible

  Blaise Pascal (1950). “Pensées”

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• Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts; since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public, and his own present and future benefit in all respects.

  William Penn

  Men, Thinking, Benefits

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Order, Discipline, Demand

  1970 Stilwell and the American Experience in China, pt.1, ch.1.

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• The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Happiness, Business

  "Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh".

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