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In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness. -- Lin Yutang
Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness. -- Thomas Aquinas
I have a theatrical temperament. I'm not interested in the middle road - maybe because everyone's on it. Rationality, reasonableness bewilder me. -- Joan Didion
I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from. -- Robert Walpole
Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of the common man and the establishment of a democratic republic. -- Stanley Hauerwas
We hold that an employer is vicariously liable for actionable discrimination caused by a supervisor, but subject to an affirmative defense looking to the reasonableness of the employer's conduct as well as that of a plaintiff victim. -- David Souter
Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them. -- Maria Monk
The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another. -- Adam Clarke
On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them. -- Sam Harris
Judges are the people who have to protect the rights of individuals, have to protect the rights of minorities, have to protect the rights in the Constitution, have to protect the requirement that the executive and the legislature not simply exercise raw power but adhere to standards of reasonableness and constitutionality. -- Jed S. Rakoff
He brought a sensibility and a hard-edged reasonableness to operating restaurants that had a lasting impact on me and still affects how I run all our restaurants today. The passing of 'Restaurant Man' - the original gangsta 'Restaurant Man,' my father - was the passing of an era. No one can replace him. -- Joe Bastianich
The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young. -- Noah Webster
But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus. -- Matthew Arnold
When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot. -- Eric Hoffer
It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery. -- Bertrand Russell
The single greatest world transformation would simply be the embrace of global reasonableness and pluralistic tolerance the global embrace of egoic-rationality (on the way to centauric vision-logic). -- Ken Wilber
He that rightly understands the reasonableness and Excellency of charity will know that it can never be excusable to waste any of our money in pride and folly. -- William Law
We believe in a government that is characterized by fairness and reasonableness, a reasonableness that goes beyond labels, that doesn't distort or promise to do things that we know we can't do. -- Mario Cuomo

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