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• A certain amount of taxes is of course indispensable to carry on essential government functions. Reasonable taxes for this purpose need not hurt production much.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Hurt, Government, Essentials

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.34, Crown Business

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• The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, World, Trouble

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order - not merely mathematical skill but a sensitivity to the relative importance of different factors and a critical, almost an artistic, faculty in the selection of behaviour equations which are reasonable, tentative hypotheses in explaining the behaviour of actual economies.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Order, Skills, Different

  "The Skills of the Economist". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, pp. 16-17, 1958.

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• A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and a reasonable standard of physical sustenance and comfort, the whole being bedeviled by the belief that there is always something better to be had if only one presses on.

  P. D. James

  Expectations, Comfort, Essentials

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• A nation's economic salvation does not lie in the amount of money its rich inhabitants can squander recklessly. A nation's economic salvation lies in the amount of money its inhabitants can save and invest after providing themselves with all the necessaries and all the reasonable comforts of life.

  B. C. Forbes

  Lying, Comfort, Doe

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• To enjoy a reasonable chance for continued better than average results, the investor must follow policies which are (1) inherently sound and promising, and (2) not popular on Wall Street.

  Benjamin Graham

  Wall, Average, Sound

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there's one responsibility that you must never delegate. You, and no one but you, must investigate whether an adviser is trustworthy and charges reasonable fees.

  Benjamin Graham

  Responsibility, Investing, Shame

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.

  Shimon Peres

  Men, Negative Words, Parent

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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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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• Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If our children have to pay interest on it they will pay that interest to themselves. A reasonable internal debt will not impoverish our children or put the Nation into bankruptcy.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Children, Debt, Pay

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8”, p.351, Best Books on

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• It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.

  Gore Vidal

  Literature, Assuming

  Gore Vidal (1982). “Pink triangle and yellow star, and other essays (1976-1982)”

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• We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Sound, Wells

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.428

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• Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Respect, Giving, Attention

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”

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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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• 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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• There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw.

  Stephen Cambone

  Data, Perspective, Use

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