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Tag Name "Rationalizations" (13)

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Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.
Aldous Huxley
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
Barbara Deming
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Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything....I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable. The rationalizations escalate....It's only marijuana. He gets high only on weekends. At least he's not using hard drugs.
David Sheff
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Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
Freda Adler
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Don't knock rationalization. Where would we be without it? I don't know anyone who'd get through the day without two or three juicy rationalizations. They're more important than sex. Have you ever gone a week without a rationalization?
Jeff Goldblum
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The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
Max Lerner
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It is important to rise above rationalizations and make the best choices.
Quentin L. Cook
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The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into the magic aura are not dealt with rationally but by a specific type of pseudo-reasoning. Absurdities and contradictions are made acceptable by specious rationalizations.
Arthur Koestler
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Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.
Bentley Little
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God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents.
Douglas Wilson
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Great rationalizations. All of which her adrenal gland middle-fingered and then carried right on.
J.R. Ward
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The endless, agonizing recycling of what might have been, soon followed by a litany of rationalizations and self-deceptions as you struggle to reconcile the void between the person you want to be and the person you fear you are.
Jon Krakauer
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It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges that are rarely satisfied with single images.
Minor White