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All progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected. -- A. P. Herbert
Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person, the consistently reasonable man. -- Arthur Eddington
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man. -- Democritus
The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice. -- Jean Genet
Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? -- Bertrand Russell
The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man. -- Phillips Brooks
No reasonable man, much less a Christian, can or should take part in the efforts of Communists and Socialists -- C.F.W. Walther
A proof is that which convinces a reasonable man; a rigorous proof is that which convinces an unreasonable man. -- Mark Kac
Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself? -- Alexander Hamilton
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the Cartesian tradition. -- Thomas McEvilley
I consider myself a reasonable man. As such, I tend to expect others to behave with a modicum of reason and common sense. Especially those with power. -- Peter Horton
A reasonable man adjusts himself to the world. An unreasonable man expects the world to adjust itself to him. Therefore all progress is made by unreasonable people. -- Confucius
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory. -- Francois Rabelais
And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt? -- Henry David Thoreau
The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence -- Bertrand Russell
No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization. -- Nelson A. Miles
While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful -- H. G. Wells
While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. -- H. G. Wells
It does not, surely, require such torrents of blood to satisfy any reasonable man that nothing can be a more impious presumption than for either side to think themselves entitled to count the Almighty as an ally in such a pitiful display of human passion. -- James L. Petigru
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication. -- Lord Byron
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self. -- John Milton
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. -- Joseph Addison
This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning. -- Franz Boas
I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consistent with God's existence as it is in opposition to God's existence. -- John Clayton
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
They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever. -- Shimon Peres
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God. -- John Donne
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance. -- D. H. Lawrence
Let's Get Harry' was where I met Bob Singer and worked with him for the first time, and then 'Reasonable Doubts' was the second time, and there was a thing after that called 'Charlie Grace' that was the third time. I liked working with Bob. A nice man and a good partner. -- Mark Harmon
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
Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective White House chief of staff. He did not make many enemies, and he had the ability to persuade people with that soft tone and very reasonable style of his. He's always been exceptionally good as the right-hand man. -- Barton Gellman
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. -- Alexander Hamilton
Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order. -- Hans Arp
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The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'. -- A. P. Herbert
Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being. -- John F. Kennedy
It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning. -- Henry David Thoreau
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war. -- Martin Firrell
But to be hanged is that not unendurable?" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself. -- Epictetus
Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man. -- Thomas Jefferson
The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it. -- Josh Billings
Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him. -- John Steinbeck
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling. -- Leo Tolstoy
...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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