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Tag Name "Rational" (669)

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Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Rational order in the technological world can be as fascinating as the fetishes of a Congo witch-doctor - scientific phenomena become significant images.
Eduardo Paolozzi
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Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.
Edward Gibbon
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Rational people, anti-religionists, must end their timidity and come out of the closet and assert themselves. And those who consider themselves only moderately religious really need to look in the mirror and realize that the solace and comfort that religion brings you actually comes at a terrible price.
Bill Maher
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Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.
Alister E. McGrath
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Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
Albert Ellis
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Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.
Doris Egan
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
W. Edwards Deming
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Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders.
Scott Jurek
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Rational egoism is the only morality that is for human life thus, it is the only morality that is actually moral. Those who choose to be rationally self-interested thereby make the most of their life - and they are morally good because of it.
Craig Biddle
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
Ambrose Bierce
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It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable.
Robert Payne
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.
Jack Welch
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Thank you for calling customer service. If you're calm and rational, press 1. If you're a whiner, press 2. If you're a hot head, press 3
Randy Glasbergen
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Even the charities I give to are related to things that touch my life, like the Special Olympics. I'm not fully rational I'm swayed by my biases and my emotions.
Paul Bloom
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The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.
Johannes Kepler
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After I went to bed I had a curious fancy as to dreams. In sleep the doors of the mind are shut, and thoughts come jumping in at the windows. They tumble headlong, and therefore are so disorderly and strange. Sometimes they are stout and light on their feet, and then they are rational dreams.
James Boswell
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Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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In the end, rational policy is always good.
Paul Keating
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The influence of friendship upon culture differs from that of love, in that it assumes the basic idiosyncrasies of personal taste to be unalterable. Love, in spite of all rational knowledge to the contrary, is always in the mood of believing in miracles.
John Cowper Powys
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A wise man has told us that men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in.
Jane Addams
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We can live a more relaxed life. We can accept that our decisions aren't rational, that we are always conditioned by society that we lose something every time we choose something else, and that we can't truly control the consequences of our decisions.
Renata Salecl
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