Reasonable Quotes

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Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such… — Bertrand Russell
There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound reasonable...in large part,… — P.J. O'Rourke
You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm. — Abraham Lincoln
The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the… — George Bernard Shaw
If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to… — William James
Any group of persons â€“ prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients â€“ develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful, reasonable and normal once you… — Erving Goffman
Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind — Roy Keane
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand. — Harper Lee
A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of… — R. H. Tawney
I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure… — E. W. Howe
Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal… — Nick Rahall
Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That's why they make those second grade chairs so… — Jim Rohn
The bottom line for housing is that the concerns we used to hear about the possibility of a devastating collapseâ€”one that might be big enough… — Janet Yellen
It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are… — Margaret Thatcher
Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate — John Ashcroft
To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should have liberty to… — Robert Graves
Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if theyre lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any… — David Attenborough
Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round. — Steven Erikson
We must limit to a reasonable amount the Jewish influence...Whenever the Jewish percentage of total population becomes too high, a reaction seems to invariably occur.… — Charles Lindbergh
The American president just won the nobel peace prize, by any reasonable measure, all Americans should be proud — Rachel Maddow

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