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• 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

  Men, Cheerful, Literature

  H. G. Wells (2017). “Apropos of Dolores by H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.36, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) (PublishDrive)

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• El hombre es un animal que razona más que razona.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Animal, Hombre, Humanidad

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• If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Political, Able

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• Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophical, Dignity, Communist Manifesto

  Karl Marx Friedrich Engels (1975). "Obras completas"

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• Nada garantiza que las personas razonables se pongan de acuerdo en todo, por supuesto, pero las que no lo son tienen la certeza de estar divididas por sus dogmas. Ya es hora de que reconozcamos que este espíritu de indagación mutua, que es la base de toda ciencia real, es la antítesis misma de la fe religiosa.

  Sam Harris

  Religioso, Real, Garantiza Que

  "La política de la ignorancia", por Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2 de agosto de 2005.

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• If it were possible adequately to present the whole of a culture, stressing every aspect exactly as appears in the culture itself, no single detail would appear bizarre or strange or arbitrary to the reader, but rather the details would all appear natural and reasonable as they do to the natives who have lived all their lives within the culture.

  Gregory Bateson

  Stress, Details, Culture

  "Naven: A Survey of the Problems Suggested by a Composite Picture". Book by Gregory Bateson, 1936.

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• Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]

  Agatha Christie

  Order, Life Is Like, Doe

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Sad cypress”

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• I'm not saying my mother-in-law is fat - because she is of reasonable size, and I care about her and her self-image.

  Bernard Manning

  Mother, Self, Law

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• The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.

  Edmund Burke

  Errors, Conservative, Pursuit

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.23, Delphi Classics

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• Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Benefits, Conservative

  Edmund Burke (1855). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.335

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• If a man loses one-third of his skin he dies; if a tree loses one-third of its bark, it too dies. If the Earth is a 'sentient being', would it not be reasonable to expect that if it loses one-third of its trees and vegetable covering, it will also die?

  Richard St. Barbe Baker

  Men, Vegetables, Tree

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• Lo que más temo y deseo en este mundo es la pasión. La temo porque promete ser espontánea, fuera de mi control, sin nombre, más allá de mi yo razonable. La deseo porque la pasión tiene color, como el paisaje que tengo ante mí. No es pálida. No es neutra. Revela el reverso del corazón.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Pasión, Corazón, Ser

  Terry Tempest Williams (2008). "Rojo: Pasión y paciencia en el desierto", p.195, Vintage

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• El Diablo es fácil de identificar. Aparece cuando estás terriblemente cansado y te hace una petición muy razonable que sabes que no debes conceder.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Tired, Evil, Easy

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• Yet, when we must put aside our wrath, quench our envy, soften our anger, offer our prayers, and show a disposition which is reasonable, mild, kindly, and loving, how could poverty stand in our way? For we accomplish these things not by spending money but by making the correct choice.

  San Juan Crisóstomo

  Prayer, Wrath, Envy

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• But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board.

  Birch Bayh

  Running, Jobs, Airplane

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• My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.

  Paul Theroux

  Islands, Self, World

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• It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

  Demócrito

  Fighting, Men, Desire

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 165), 1948.

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• Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Empowering, Pursuit, Humankind

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• Tres meses me parece un tiempo bastante razonable para terminar un libro, si uno puede ponerse manos a la obra.

  Agatha Christie

  Libro, Escritura, Meses

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• Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.

  Gary Miller

  Believe, Thinking, Agriculture

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• Cuida de no abrigar ideas impropias de la virtud y de la naturaleza razonable.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Felicidad, Cuidado, Virtud

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperador de Roma), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (de Tebas.) (1708). "El Emperador Marco Antonino Su conversación consigo mismo: Junto con el discurso preliminar del erudito Gataker; como también la vida del emperador", p.193

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• La idea de que los negocios son estrictamente un asunto de números siempre me ha parecido absurda. Para empezar, nunca he sido especialmente bueno con los números, pero creo que he hecho un trabajo razonable con los sentimientos. Y estoy convencido de que son los sentimientos -y sólo los sentimientos- los que explican el éxito de la marca Virgin en todas sus múltiples formas.

  Richard Branson

  Jobs, Thinking, Ideas

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• If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.

  Jerry García

  Work Out, Energy, Able

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• 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

  Men, Years, Ends

  Henry David Thoreau, Steve Grant (2005). “Daily Observations: Thoreau on the Days of the Year”, p.21, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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