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It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony, insults and flames.

Clifford Stoll

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Thomas H. Huxley

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

Jonathan Swift

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

Sydney Smith

My candid response is it's extremely poorly reasoned and is not well decided.

Stephen Taber

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

James F. Cooper

We've just got too much stuff going on right now. We need to go slower. We need to have time to make reasoned decisions about what we are going to allow.

Chris Bendon

On the limited evidence presented, it appears the secretary has exercised her reasoned judgement to determine what relevant factors and criteria should be considered, ... My order requires nothing more. The plaintiff's motion is denied.

Terry Lewis

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

James A. Froude

It sounds like a good idea. It's a well-reasoned, well-thought-out approach.

John Watts

He was a fairly high-ranking officer in the Libyan Intelligence Agency and his activities appeared to have, and can be reasoned to have, government involvement.

Lee Kreindler

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

Saul Steinberg

Then you can make reasoned public decisions.

Fred Cohen

None of those now on death row have ever contested their guilt. It's harder to get a death penalty in Connecticut. So it's not worthwhile for prosecutors to seek it. Connecticut juries are required to make a reasoned moral judgment on whether the prisoner should die.

Harry Weller

Throughout his career he has shown a great deal of integrity and a reasoned judicial temperament that would serve our country well.

Thomas Donohue

We are very concerned at this point that she is being coerced not as a result of arguments and disputation and reasoned discussion, but that she is being personally attacked and coerced.

Brad Lerman

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

Harriet Tubman

I really do think this is the cleanest way for the public, with full disclosure, on all of the elements to make a decision, and I have confidence ... they will make a reasoned decision.

Jan Jones

I think our system's broken. I don't focus so much on the time issue. Whenever the process is not allowed to run its course ... it really causes some chaos really where it's not as reasoned and orderly as it should be and could be.

Todd Doss