Reasonable Quotes - Page 18

• ...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.

  Steve Allen

  Religion, Assumption, Should

  Steve Allen (1998). “Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking : with 101 Ways to Reason Better & Improve Your Mind”

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• We live in a world where virtually everybody expects there's going to be some reasonable therapy for virtually any situation.

  Dean Kamen

  World, Situation, Therapy

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. June 9, 2009.

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• A proof is that which convinces a reasonable man; a rigorous proof is that which convinces an unreasonable man.

  Mark Kac

  Men, Proof, Unreasonable

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• Richard Dawkins says he can't be sure God doesn't exist. Well, you know what I do when I'm not sure about something? I go on a big crusade about it and write a bunch of books on the subject. No, wait, that sounds more like what someone with a mental disorder would do. That's one of the crazy things about lots of atheists: They're whole movement is supposed to be about being logical and reasonable, yet they tend to rail against religion is a very mindless way that doesn't seem to serve any more purpose than a tantrum. Perhaps I just don't understand their strong faith in not having faith.

  Frank J. Fleming

  Strong, Atheist, Crazy

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• If your aims as a donor are modest, you can accomplish an awful lot. When your aims become elevated beyond a reasonable level, you not only don't accomplish much, but you can cause a great deal of damage.

  Irving Kristol

  Levels, Awful, Damage

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• Everything that breathes, breathes by air and cannot live without air; similarly all reasonable free creatures live by the Holy Spirit, as though by air, and cannot live without Him. "Every soul is quickened by the Holy Spirit." Recognise that the Holy Spirit stands in the same relation to your soul as air stands in relation to your body.

  John of Kronstadt

  Air, Soul, Body

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• An armed republic submits less easily to the rule of one of its citizens than a republic armed by foreign forces. Rome and Sparta were for many centuries well armed and free. The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom. Among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible. It is not reasonable to suppose that one who is armed will obey willingly one who is unarmed; or that any unarmed man will remain safe among armed servants.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Rome, Evil

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• My family thought if I spent time in the military, I'd become more reasonable, a bit calmer. But I've always been extreme in what I do - both as a believer and a nonbeliever.

  Shahin Najafi

  Military, My Family, Believer

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A life where bots tell us what to do every second - get up, go to work, do this, have kids with this person - is completely reasonable. Bots determine our economic opportunities; We have already accepted that. All the decision making would be done by bots and we wouldn't even notice.

  Daniel Suarez

  Kids, Opportunity, Decision

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm a reasonable kind of guy. If I hear something that seems to make sense, I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. If the alternative explanation has to be pounded into shape before it fits the mould of our experience, it seems to me that it's unlikely to be true.

  Frank Schatzing

  Giving, Guy, Doubt

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• I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.

  Roger Ebert

  Patriotic, Family Values, Values

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• Patience? Certainly no! We have no time for patience! While tomorrow is just an assumption, it is not reasonable to be patient!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Patient, Tomorrow, Assumption

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• People are willing to work free, and they are willing to work for a reasonable wage; but offer them just a small payment and they will walk away.

  Dan Ariely

  People, Payment, Walks

  Dan Ariely (2013). “The Irrational Bundle”, p.63, HarperCollins UK

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• You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt. When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

  Dan Quayle

  Years, White, House

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• The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

  Phillips Brooks

  Men, Optimism, Essentials

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• I should much rather see a reasonable agreement with Arabs based upon living together than the creation of a Jewish state.

  Albert Einstein

  Agreement, Together, Creation

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• It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Miracle

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of passion.

  Mardy Grothe

  Passion, Roles, Affair

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• There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Hate, Evil, Suffering

  "Phaedo" by Plato,

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• I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush.

  Robin Ince

  Library, Hush, Percentages

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• It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Income, Difficult, Mankind

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• Glenn McGrath had a reasonable career in Australia.

  Andrew Strauss

  Careers, Australia

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• People! Take to the streets and scream 'BE REASONABLE!'

  Jon Stewart

  People, Scream, Streets

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• There can be no reasonable right to live on sidewalks. Society needs order, and hence has a right to a minimally civilized ambience in public spaces. Regarding the homeless, this is not merely for aesthetic reasons because the anesthetic is not merely unappealing. It presents a spectacle of disorder and decay that becomes a contagion.

  George Will

  Order, Space, Needs

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• Government relief tends constantly to get out of hand. And even when it is kept within reasonable bounds it tends to reduce the incentives to work and to save both of those who receive it and of those who are forced to pay it. It may be said, in fact, that practically every measure that governments take with the ostensible object of 'helping the poor' has the long-run effect of doing the opposite.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Running, Government, Hands

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