Reasonable Quotes - Page 39

• I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

  David Henry Hwang

  Dream, Want, Way

  "Great Expectations, And Some Hope Of Meeting Them". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.nhpr.org. June 28, 2012.

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• We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability.

  Mike Quigley

  Accountability, Needs, Transparency

  "Reinventing the Federal Budget" by Mike Quigley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2010.

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• I found draft resistors very conscientious, reasonable, and not fanatics.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Found, Fanatics

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• A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Art, Doe, Facts

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.195, Cooper Square Press

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• Notable American Women gives us, with great panache and in eerie detail, a world that is cruelly reasonable within the near-religious limitations of its weird laws and customs. It is a book as unique as it is wonderfully strange.

  Gilbert Sorrentino

  Religious, Book, Unique

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• ...a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe [war and human suffering]. I think that's more terrifying than the occasional Hitler ...or other that crop up - these people would not able to operate were it not for this apathy and equanimity - and therefore I think that it is in some sense the sane and reasonable and tolerant people who should share a very serious burden of guilt, that they very easily throw on the shoulders of others who seem more extreme and more violent.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Thinking, People

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• Puerto Rico has two divergent paths forward. After a reasonable transition period, it could become a state. Or it can become a sovereign nation.

  Pedro Pierluisi

  Two, Divergent, Transition

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• The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group.

  Henry Bonilla

  Cutting, Compassion, Talking

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• And I had by now become used to the idea of witchcraft, it seemed a reasonable thing, so many things are about, at night, in Africa.

  Isak Dinesen

  Night, Ideas, Used

  Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

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• The system should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within reasonable time.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Feedback, Should, Appropriate

  Jakob Nielsen (1994). “Usability Engineering”, p.20, Morgan Kaufmann

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• A timely, interesting, educational approach to today's wine picture. Wine still makes a feast out of a meal, but in times of not so plenty we will enjoy a bottle that is more reasonable. This tome is a must-read for wine lovers as well as the trade.

  Margrit Mondavi

  Educational, Wine, Interesting

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• The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to manage the public business, and that they carry on this work with reasonable intelligence and honest. There is little support for that theory in known facts.

  H. L. Mencken

  Integrity, Men, Average

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• In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Men, Engineering, Balance

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• Love is scary because it pulls you in with an intense force, a supermassive black hole which looks like nothing from the outside but from the inside challenges every reasonable thing you know. You lose yourself, like I lost myself, in the warmest of annihilations.

  Matt Haig

  Love Is, Scary, Challenges

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• Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.

  Noah Baumbach

  Parent, Sound

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• Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Stupidity, Mind

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• The Jews fastened their religion upon the Western world, not because it was more reasonable than the religions of their contemporaries - as a matter of fact, it was vastly less reasonable than many of them - but because it was far more poetical.

  H. L. Mencken

  Atheism, Facts, World

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.71, Vintage

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• Christianity offers the only viable, reasonable, definitive answer to the questions of Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going? Does life have any meaningful purpose?

  Tom DeLay

  Meaningful, Scary, Doe

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• Prove beyond reasonable doubt that the process of evolution (option 3 above, under known options) is the only possible way the observed phenomena could have come into existence.

  Kent Hovind

  Scary, Doubt, Way

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• You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in the face you go ow, you know that's... but depression is something that happens like weather to you inside you.

  Stephen Fry

  Weather, Annoyed, Pissed Off

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Evil, Weakness, Wickedness

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• How prone we are to come to the consideration of every question with heads and hearts pre-occupied! How prone to shrink from any opinion, however reasonable, if it be opposed to any, however unreasonable, of our own! How disposed are we to judge, in anger, those who call upon us to think, and encourage us to enquire! To question our prejudices seems nothing less than sacrilege; to break the chains of our ignorance, nothing short of impiety!

  Frances Wright

  Heart, Ignorance, Thinking

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of Popular Lectures”, p.32

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• There's one post-Christmas chore I love-writing thank-you letters.... Lots of companies for many reasonable reasons, I guess, have a policy against sending even Christmas cards, never mind things, at Christmastime. But our clan gets a big kick out of opening the Warner-Lambert box containing an assortment of their wares; we argue over which of the boys is to get the Union Oil Co. necktie [and] all the holiday long we play the marvelous Christmas music sent by Goodyear.... None of these things means that Forbes or Forbeses have been had. But all of us like being thought of.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Writing, Holiday, Mean

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• I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.

  John Green

  Circles, Drawing, Boredom

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.129, A&C Black

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• I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Book, People, Done

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2001). “Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books”, p.15, Beacon Press

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