Reasonable Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

  Dora Russell

  Party, Might, Common

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• The fundamental issue is: In the world of the Internet, is there a place for a packager of services? Does the customer want to go surf the Net and go to every one of 50,000 Web sites? Or will people pay a reasonable amount for somebody to go out and preselect and package what they want? My guess is they will both coexist.

  Lou Gerstner

  Issues, People, Doe

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• Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.

  I. A. Richards

  Mean, Poetry, Overcoming

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• The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Men, Political, Atheism

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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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• Love is not reasonable. If we could assign it to the reasonable world, it would not be useful.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Love Is, World

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• In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don't know if that's an Asperger's thing or not, I think it's just being reasonable.

  Bram Cohen

  Attitude, Thinking, Dresses

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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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• In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That's reasonable, but the question is, how do you define what that looks like?

  Susan Cain

  Jobs, Emotional, Skills

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• The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.

  Thomas Cech

  Views, People, Excitement

  "Funding above and beyond scientific research". EMBO reports interview, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. September 15, 2001.

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• I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.

  Joshua Ferris

  Effort, Absurd

  "This much I know: Joshua Ferris" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2010.

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• Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction.

  Helen Garner

  Mean, Fiction, Way

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• The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Likes, Responsible

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• Trust is essential for our social wellbeing. Without trusting the good will of others we retreat into bureaucracy, rules and demands for more law and order. Trust is based on positive experiences with other people an it grows with use. We need to trust that others are going be basically reasonable beings.

  Eva Cox

  Trust, Order, Law

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• It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power... I think when Universal goes up over 40 percent market share, I don't see how reasonable regulators can countenance. It will impact not just labels, but artists and cultural diversity.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Artist, Thinking, Impact

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• The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of times greater than we could ever obtain from our beleaguered Earth. As expressed very beautifully in the language of House Concurrent Resolution 451, 'This tiny Earth is not humanity's prison, is not a closed and dwindling resource, but is in fact only part of a vast system rich in opportunities...'

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Opportunity, Space, House

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• The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Support, Cost, Demand

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• By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name.

  Andy Partridge

  Mean, Names, Important

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• Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.

  Jim Talent

  Jobs, Past, Oil

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• My parents just always taught me to be reasonable.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  Parent, Taught

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How can you have a reasonable debate with people who are constantly changing the panic? They are moving the panic to a greater wave of hysteria?

  Greg Gutfeld

  Moving, Hysteria, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.

  Criss Jami

  Running, Men, Safety

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.88, Criss Jami

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• Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader.

  John Dryden

  Judging, Criticism, Delight

  John Dryden (1995). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XII: Plays Ambboyna, The State of Innocence, Aureng-Zebe”, p.87, Univ of California Press

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• Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person, the consistently reasonable man.

  Arthur Eddington

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Men

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