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• Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable.

  Asger Jorn

  Abnormal, Originality

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• To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.

  Walter Cronkite

  Yield, People, Democracy

  "Final Words: Cronkite's Vietnam Commentary". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. July 18, 2009.

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• Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.

  Hans Arp

  Men, Order, Deception

  "Abstract Art". Book by Anna Moszynska (p. 66), 1990.

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• I think a lot of people have unreasonable expectations because they never stop to consider what life actually has to offer them. They're always looking for some great epiphany from the skies. They never stop to consider the fact which human beings find hardest to recognize: "Maybe I'm not worthy of an epiphany.

  Robertson Davies

  Thinking, Sky, People

  Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.160, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that in one word which either the barbarity or the narrowness of modern tongues cannot supply in more. ...But since every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another, it would be unreasonable to limit a translator to the narrow compass of his author's words; it is enough if he choose out some expression which does not vitiate the sense.

  John Dryden

  Beautiful, Latin, Expression

  "William Gilbert of Colchester". Book by P. Fleury Mottelay, 1893.

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• Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior, kind words, pleasant looks, a sweet voice and a bright eye from a child or children when they themselves are full of bitterness and scolding! How inconsistent and unreasonable this is!

  Brigham Young

  Sweet, Children, Teaching

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• Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.

  Bernard Malamud

  Book, Would Be, Matter

  BERNARD MALAMUD (1979). “DUBLIN'S LIVES”

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• Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Education, Children, Disappointment

  Fran Lebowitz (2003). “Metropolitan Life ; Social Studies: Social studies”

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• Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.

  Saint Basil

  Journey, Long, May

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.112, CUA Press

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• It's important for the children's point of view. That they have parents who are equally unreasonable, but in different ways.

  Guy Jenkin

  Children, Views, Parent

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Selfish, People, Family Reunion

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• You know that you can't go out there and change the world tomorrow morning. It just takes time, and the realization of that does not produce frustration. What produces frustration, is when you expect the world to join with your cause it's so reasonable. It is not reasonable to unreasonable people.

  Jacque Fresco

  Morning, Frustration, People

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• They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Intelligent, World, Blind

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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• The prosecution responsible for the many discrepancies in their work must be made to answer for them, for Raffaele's sake, my sake and most especially for the sake of Meredith's family. Our hearts go out to them. No matter what happens, my family and I will face this continuing legal battle as we always have, confident in the truth and with our heads held high in the face of wrongful accusations and unreasonable adversity.

  Amanda Knox

  Heart, Adversity, Battle

  Amanda Knox Retrial: "Italian Court Rules To Re-Hear Murder Case" by Chris Rogers, hollywoodlife.com. March 26, 2013.

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• But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Law, Reason, Loving Others

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina”, p.717, Courier Corporation

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• Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.

  Lord Byron

  People, Reason, Possession

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

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• Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.

  Bill Vaughan

  Patience, Men, Details

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• The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. ... It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wilderness lies in wait.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Lying, Waiting

  "Orthodoxy". Chapter VI: "The Paradoxes of Christianity". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

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• Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also, should introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth.

  Luther Burbank

  Teaching, Light, Discovery

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• Since art exists for humanity it is not unreasonable to assume that humanity has some rights in the matter. Who pays the piper calls the tune. An artist cannot be at once a rebel and a comfortable citizen.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Art, Rights, Humanity

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• It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect moral success with [his] children without submitting to the laws of morality.

  Larry Christenson

  Fathers Day, Children, Law

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• Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct. We don't know why. Some by wanton extinction, some through natural catastrophe, some destroyed by meteorites and asteroids. In the light of these mass extinctions it really does seem unreasonable to suppose that Homo sapiens should be exempt. Our species will have been one of the shortest-lived of all, a mere blink, you may say, in the eye of time.

  P. D. James

  Eye, Mass Extinction, Light

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.24, Vintage

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• The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable feeling that I have found what I was searching for without ever having discovered what it was.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Feelings, Landscape, Restless

  Peter Matthiessen (2010). “The Tree Where Man Was Born”, p.201, Penguin

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• In a world threatened by a famine of righteousness and spiritual starvation, we have been commanded to sustain the prophet. As we give heed to, uphold, and affirm prophetic word, we witness that we have the faith to humbly submit to the will, the wisdom, and the timing of the Lord. We heed prophetic word even when it may seem unreasonable, inconvenient, and uncomfortable. According to the world’s standards, following the prophet may be unpopular, politically incorrect, or socially unacceptable. But following the prophet is always right.

  Carol F. McConkie

  Spiritual, Giving, World

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• I have tried, with little success, to get some of my friends to understand my amazement that the abstraction of integers for counting is both possible and useful. Is it not remarkable that 6 sheep plus 7 sheep makes 13 sheep; that 6 stones plus 7 stones make 13 stones? Is it not a miracle that the universe is so constructed that such a simple abstraction as a number is possible? To me this is one of the strongest examples of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics. Indeed, I find it both strange and unexplainable.

  Richard Hamming

  Simple, Effectiveness, Numbers

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