Back in Arromanches, he did what any reasonable person would have done as soon as he discovered that his money had run out.

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No "reasonable person, " he said, would assume that Apple Computer had created or owned the 3.5 million songs on its hugely successful iTunes music store.

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However, as any reasonable person knows, he speaks primarily from the male perspective without regard to the barrage of challenges there are for our women.

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Now, during the time that the Islamic Courts Union was in power in Somalia, he definitely was seen as a reasonable person, someone who could tamp down some of the rhetoric of the Islamic Courts Union.

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"The doctor said that he had assumed I was a reasonable person, but that if I truly believed that every pro-life individual was simply an ideologue who wanted to inflict suffering on women, then I was not very reasonable, " Obama said.

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First, why would an elite group of overworked analysts bother to attend a meeting at which a reasonable person would not learn anything he was likely to want to know?

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