Reasonable Quotes

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  The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker (1701). “The Emperor-Marcus Antonius: his conversation with himself. together with the preliminary discourse of the learned Gataker”

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• All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Change, Success, Creativity

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

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• You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.

  Jaclyn Smith

  Perfect, Guilty, Feels

  Twitter post from Dec 5, 2017

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• You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.

  Jesse Jackson

  Love, Dream, War

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• The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1726). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself. Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker”, p.155

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• You know what ? Certain people think they will feel good if certain things happen The trick is : you have to feel good for no reason

  Richard Bandler

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

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• Grace is the atmosphere created by love that makes faith the only reasonable response

  Bill Johnson

  Grace, Atmosphere, Response

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• Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophical

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• If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Questions And Answers, Want

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• A reasonable fine is such as the law will judge to be so . . . but what a reasonable fine is, and who shall be the judge of it, the law has established no rule.

  Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke

  Law, Judging, Reason

  "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations". Book by James William Norton-Kyshe, p. 218, 1904.

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• Try for a goal that's reasonable, then gradually raise it.

  Emil Zatopek

  Inspirational, Goal, Trying

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• We have to have an aggressive, long-term plan to tackle our nation’s debt, but attempting to balance the budget on the backs of veterans who have risked life and limb in service of our country is unacceptable. I believe we can and should work together to find reasonable and common-sense cuts that will reduce our debt, but as a generation of warriors returns from two wars, our most solemn responsibility is to make sure they have the care and benefits they have earned.

  Tim Walz

  Country, War, Believe

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• In the Bible angels speak and humans speak back to them. This is the case with Mary in Luke 1. The angel speaks, Mary questions, and it goes back and forth. Abraham speaks with angels. So I would contend the Bible has enough evidence of angels speaking and humans speaking that speaking with an angel today would be reasonable. I've heard enough stories and read such that confirm that Christians today do speak with angels.

  Scot McKnight

  Christian, Angel, Would Be

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• There are parts of us that are miserable, that hate, that love, that are cruel, are kind, are reasonable, are unreasonable. You know, you live inside your own mind. Who are you kidding?

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Buddhism, Mind

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• We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Way, Reason

  "Island".

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• Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take a position in the "struggle for social justice." What is condemned is "total war," which has no respect for the dignity of others (and consequently of oneself). It excludes reasonable compromise, does not pursue the common good but the good of a group, and sets out to destroy whatever stands in its way.

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Peace, War

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• Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.

  Philip Sidney

  Reason, Shows, Cease

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• It is true that the successful quest for wisdom might lead to the result that wisdom is not the one thing needful. But this result would owe its relevance to the fact that it is the result of the quest for wisdom: the very disavowal of reason must be reasonable disavowal.

  Leo Strauss

  Successful, Quests, Might

  Leo Strauss (1953). “Natural Right and History”, p.36, University of Chicago Press

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• Just when summer gets perfect-fresh nights, soft sun, casual breezes, crushingly full and quietly cooling trees, empty beaches, and free weekends- it ends. Life is like that too. Just when we get it right, it starts to change. The job gets easy and we know just how to do it, and they tell us we're retired. The children grow up and get reasonable and they leave home, just when it's nice to have them around. . . . That's life on the edge of autumn. And that's beautiful-if we have the humility for it.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Life, Beautiful, Summer

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• Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have a negative effect on the wages of workers in that state.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Jobs, Impact, Law

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• Someday I'd like to be a father, not of a human child, but something more reasonable.

  Dov Davidoff

  Children, Father, Someday

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• Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

  Orson Scott Card

  Liberty, Impossible, Argument

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• Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Firsts, Disputes

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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  He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

  John Milton

  Book, Reading, Library

  Areopagitica (1644)

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• The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of confidence.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Honor, Liberty, Foundation

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.81, Rowman & Littlefield

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