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• While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Cheerful, Literature

  H. G. Wells (2017). “Apropos of Dolores by H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.36, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) (PublishDrive)

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• Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Animal, Men, Humanity

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• If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Political, Able

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• Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophical, Dignity, Communist Manifesto

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Collected works”

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• Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Real, Guarantees That

  "The Politics of Ignorance" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2005.

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• If it were possible adequately to present the whole of a culture, stressing every aspect exactly as appears in the culture itself, no single detail would appear bizarre or strange or arbitrary to the reader, but rather the details would all appear natural and reasonable as they do to the natives who have lived all their lives within the culture.

  Gregory Bateson

  Stress, Details, Culture

  "Naven: A Survey of the Problems Suggested by a Composite Picture". Book by Gregory Bateson, 1936.

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• Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]

  Agatha Christie

  Order, Life Is Like, Doe

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Sad cypress”

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• I'm not saying my mother-in-law is fat - because she is of reasonable size, and I care about her and her self-image.

  Bernard Manning

  Mother, Self, Law

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• The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.

  Edmund Burke

  Errors, Conservative, Pursuit

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.23, Delphi Classics

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• Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Benefits, Conservative

  Edmund Burke (1855). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.335

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• If a man loses one-third of his skin he dies; if a tree loses one-third of its bark, it too dies. If the Earth is a 'sentient being', would it not be reasonable to expect that if it loses one-third of its trees and vegetable covering, it will also die?

  Richard St. Barbe Baker

  Men, Vegetables, Tree

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• What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of my control, unnamed, beyond my reasonable self. I desire it because passion has color, like the landscape before me. It is not pale. It is not neutral. It reveals the backside of the heart.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Passion, Heart, Self

  Terry Tempest Williams (2008). “Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert”, p.195, Vintage

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• The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Tired, Evil, Easy

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• Yet, when we must put aside our wrath, quench our envy, soften our anger, offer our prayers, and show a disposition which is reasonable, mild, kindly, and loving, how could poverty stand in our way? For we accomplish these things not by spending money but by making the correct choice.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Wrath, Envy

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• But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board.

  Birch Bayh

  Running, Jobs, Airplane

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• My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.

  Paul Theroux

  Islands, Self, World

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• It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

  Democritus

  Fighting, Men, Desire

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 165), 1948.

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• Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Empowering, Pursuit, Humankind

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• Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

  Agatha Christie

  Book, Writing, Months

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• Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.

  Gary Miller

  Believe, Thinking, Agriculture

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• Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Care, Virtue

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1708). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus His Conversation with Himself: Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker ; as Also the Emperor's Life”, p.193

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• The idea that business is strictly a numbers affair has always struck me as preposterous. For one thing, I've never been particularly good at numbers, but I think I've done a reasonable job with feelings. And I'm convinced that it is feelings - and feelings alone - that account for the success of the Virgin brand in all of its myriad forms.

  Richard Branson

  Jobs, Thinking, Ideas

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• If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.

  Jerry Garcia

  Work Out, Energy, Able

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• It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Years, Ends

  Henry David Thoreau, Steve Grant (2005). “Daily Observations: Thoreau on the Days of the Year”, p.21, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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