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• One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Want, Reason, Advantage

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• Art is about the spontaneous connection of the artist to his own unconscious - about insight beyond reason. If his insight were reasonable, anyone could do it, but anyone cannot. Only few can, and they are called.

  David Mamet

  Art, Connections, Spontaneous

  David Mamet (2010). “Theatre”, p.91, Macmillan

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• In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence , an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't?

  Sebastian Junger

  Self, Risk, Way

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• The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to ask. I do not myself think the danger is serious; either a reasonable amount of concentration leads to new ideas or methods of obvious interest, or else one just leaves the problem alone. "Perfect numbers" certainly never did any good, but then they never did any particular harm.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Math, Thinking, Numbers

  John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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• Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, People, Design

  Immanuel Kant, Victor Lyle Dowdell, Hans H. Rudnick (1996). “Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View”, p.217, SIU Press

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• No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Law, May, Administration

  Abraham Lincoln (1991). “Great Speeches”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• I make no apologies for being reasonable.

  Barack Obama

  Apology

  Remarks by the President in a Town Hall Meeting in Decorah, Iowa, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. August 15, 2011.

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• There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself.

  Lewis Carroll

  Feelings, One Day, Use

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.1480, Delphi Classics

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• If you give me enough time, enough leash, I can become pretty reasonable.

  Michael Shannon

  Giving, Enough Time, Give Me

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• The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not understanding and I am just because I have no
  opinion about things I don’t understand.

  Gertrude Stein

  Men, Differences, Understanding

  Gertrude Stein, Brenda Wineapple (2002). “Three Lives”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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• The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race in perpetuity.

  E. O. Wilson

  Nature, Commitment, Race

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• Until recent times, absence of evidence for his [Jehovah's] existence has not been sufficient to rule him out. However, we now have enough knowledge that we can identify many places where there should be evidence, but there is not. The absence of that evidence allows us to rule out the existence of this God beyond a reasonable doubt.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Doubt, Religion, Jehovah

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• Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.

  Diane Ackerman

  Brain, Trying, Causes

  Diane Ackerman (2004). “An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• No reasonable man, much less a Christian, can or should take part in the efforts of Communists and Socialists

  C. F. W. Walther

  Christian, Men, Effort

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• Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Attitude, War, Rehabilitation

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• Disarming behavior, where you have two sides involved in a conflict that everybody has stereotypes of the evil other side that is convinced that they would never ever do something reasonable. If a leader on one of those sides were to defy those stereotypes then it would change everything.

  Guy Burgess

  Change, Two Sides, Evil

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• The world cannot live at peace without the United Nations. For this reason: it creates a reasonable guarantee that all this change in the world, these tremendous political and economic developments, can be channelized, kept orderly. The United Nations is a mold that keeps the hot metal from spilling over.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Peace, Guarantees That, Political

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• The only really effective means of enabling States to deal with the grave problem of poverty is to provide them with the necessary resources through foreign financial aid - public and private - granted under reasonable conditions, within the framework of international commercial relations regulated with fairness.

  Pope John Paul II

  Mean, Poverty, Enabling

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• It is extremely important that adequate provision be made for reasonable levels of income to them, for the care of the children which they must leave at home or in school, and for protection of the family unit. One of the prime objectives of the Commission on the Status of Women, which I appointed 18 months ago, is to develop a program to accomplish these purposes.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Home, School

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.465, Best Books on

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• I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.

  Robert Reich

  Thinking, Wish, Politics

  "Robert Reich's Call to 'Reason'". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. June 16, 2004.

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• I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Reading, Technology, Favors

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• What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.

  William John Wills

  Trust, Thinking, Expectations

  William John Wills (1863). “A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria”, p.46, London : R. Bentley

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• Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that.

  Steven Chu

  Sea, Three, Levels

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• Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?"

  Richard P. Feynman

  Looks, Physics, Forget

  Richard P. Feynman (2011). “"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.29, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and more mature than most of our industry's program planners believe.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Believe, America, Mature

  "In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961".

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