“ The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable. ”
- Helitzer- Copy
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“ I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously. ”
- Jeanette Winterson- Copy
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“ Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance. ”
- Ellen Glasgow- Copy
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“ The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. ”
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt- Copy
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“ So let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
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“ Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity. ”
- Gerald Vann- Copy
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“ A woman will allow herself to be clouded by her emotions. Her reasonable thought becomes completely unreasonable over the most ridiculous thing. It's a girl thing. ”
- Lea DeLaria- Copy
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“ Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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“ Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day? ”
- Maximilien Robespierre- Copy
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“ In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
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“ Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification. ”
- Alice Thomas Ellis- Copy
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“ First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
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“ I think it would be a wonderful thing to acknowledge that the country's largest minority group... to have that representation on the court would be a thrill for me,... If he was to appoint someone other than an Hispanic and it was an eminently qualified person, that's the way it goes… ”
- Mel Martinez- Copy
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