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• It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.

  Aristotle

  Mind, Demand, Accepting

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is unreasonable to think we can earn rewards without being willing to pay their true price. It is always our choice whether or not we wish to pay the price for life's rewards.

  Epictetus

  Thinking, Pay The Price, Choices

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• Unreasonable is very relative.

  Lakshmi Pratury

  Journey, Life Is A Journey, Relative

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• Guerrilla war is a test of wills. Obama's actual objectives - rollback in Iraq, containment in Syria - are not unreasonable. But they require commitment and determination. In other words, will. You can't just make one speech declaring war, then disappear and go fundraising.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Determination, War, Commitment

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• A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.

  Emile Durkheim

  Sick, Healthy, Desire

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• The truth frequently seems unreasonable; the truth frequently is depressing; the truth sometimes seems to be evil, but it has the eternal advantage, it is the truth and what is built thereon neither brings nor yields to confusion.

  Henry Ford

  Depressing, Yield, Evil

  Henry Ford (1949). “The International Jew: the World's Foremost Problem”, p.243, Library of Alexandria

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• Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Half, Unjust, Abomination

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• Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.

  Jerry Bridges

  Mind, Obedience, Natural

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.111, NavPress

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• Finally one should add that in spite of the great complexity of protein synthesis and in spite of the considerable technical difficulties in synthesizing polynucleotides with defined sequences it is not unreasonable to hope that all these points will be clarified in the near future, and that the genetic code will be completely established on a sound experimental basis within a few years.

  Francis Crick

  Dna, Years, Sound

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• It is not unreasonable to assume that the works of God, their existence and preceding non-existence, are the result of His wisdom, but we are unable to understand many of the ways of His Wisdom in His works. On this principle the whole Law of Moses is based; it begins with this principle: "And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good" (Gen. i. 31); and it ends with this principle: "The Rock, perfect is His work" (Deut. xxxii. 4). Note it.

  Maimonides

  Rocks, Law, Perfect

  Moses Maimonides (1961). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.309, Courier Corporation

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• For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

  Joichi Ito

  Believe, Japan, Korea

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• To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.

  Epictetus

  May, Creatures, Reasonable

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.8

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• I think when a man first discovers that two and two is four, there is 'beauty' in that; and we can see why. But if people stand and look at the moon and one says 'I think it's just beautiful tonight' and the other says 'The moon makes me feel awful' we are both 'clear'. A geometric shape - we know why we like it; and an unreasonable shape; it has a certain mystery that we recognize as real; but it is difficult to put these things in an objective way.

  William Baziotes

  Beautiful, Real, Moon

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• Christianity claims that the supernatural is as reasonable as the natural, that man himself is supernatural as truly as he is natural, and that the Bible is so clearly the word of God by proofs that are unanswerable, that it is unreasonable to disbelieve its divine truths.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Bible, Men, Christianity

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 35, 1895.

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• Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Illustration, Order

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.68, Vintage

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• All progress is due to the unreasonable person.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Progress, Persons, Dues

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• Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.

  Alexander Pope

  Father, People, May

  Alexander Pope (1853). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”

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• Dearest Lord, may I see you today and every day in the person of your sick, and, whilst nursing them, minister unto you. Though you hide yourself behind the unattractive disguise of the irritable, the exacting, the unreasonable, may I still recognize you, and say: "Jesus, my patient, how sweet it is to serve you.

  Mother Teresa

  Sweet, Jesus, Nursing

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Men, Silence

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• I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can't take the time to know.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  People, Wonderful, Knows

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Anita Pollitzer (1990). “Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer”, Touchstone Books

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• Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.

  Jeremy Collier

  People, May, Too Much

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• It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for a person to let money-getting harden his heart into contempt, or into impatience, of the little attentions, the merriments and the caresses of domestic life.

  William Mountford

  Flower, Heart, Dust

  William Mountford, Frederic Dan Huntington (1850). “Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth”, p.251

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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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• Even if the absence of evidence for a given god were not evidence of its absence, it would still be evidence that the belief in that god is unreasonable. That's the only proposition that any atheist of any kind has to demonstrate in order to win the argument. Because anything beyond that... is just having fun.

  Scott Clifton

  Atheist, Fun, Winning

  "God, Atheism and Evidence: A Response to Veritas48". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. January 11, 2010.

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• It is very unreasonable of people to expect one should be at home, because one is in the house. Of all privileges, that of invisibility is the most valuable.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Home, People, House

  Elizabeth Robinson Montagu, Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) (1809). “The letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu: with some of the letters of her correspondents”, p.78

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