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All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire. ↗

— Donald Kagan

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Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

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With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents. ↗

— C. S. Forester

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Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

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When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable. ↗

— Ted Kotcheff

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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

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Women would rather be right than reasonable. ↗

— Ogden Nash

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