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If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
If everything on earth were logical, nothing would transpire.
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What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
Emmanuel Levinas
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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
William Wycherley
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Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders.
Scott Jurek
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What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.
Richard Rorty
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You have to have a lot of passion for what you do... because if you don't, any rational person would give up.
Steve Jobs
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Without passion, any rational person would give up!
Steve Jobs
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I am not anti-rational, just unrational. You may infer a rational meaning in what I say or do, but it is your doing, not mine.
U.G. Krishnamurti
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
Boethius
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Refuse any image that could have a rational meaning or any memory or culture
Luis Bunuel
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Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion.
Julian Huxley
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Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
Auguste Comte
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It is not music's function to express rational necessities.
Artur Schnabel
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Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.
Raymond Smullyan
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If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all.
Jean Meslier
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Effective altruism is the form of altruism in which we bring our rational capacities to bear in order to do the most good that we can.
Peter Singer
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Hedonism can be a rational response to a difficult life.
Phillip Lopate
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Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings
Immanuel Kant
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I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies.
Oliver James
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To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.
Colin Firth
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When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.
George Soros
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You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.
Karl Popper
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It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational.
Warren Buffett
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Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.
Carter Heyward
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-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
Alan Lightman
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What if I am wrong? Any rational investment plan has to start with that question.
Peter L. Bernstein
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
Livy
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When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.
Jules de Goncourt
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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Being so rational, we have created a very simple version of ourselves.
Marcel Wanders
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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
George Santayana
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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
Jane Austen
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More often than not, the only thing between you and your dream is a rational excuse.
Mark Batterson
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If you were a sane woman, I would, of course, behave in a more rational fashion. Since you are a lunatic, however, this is the only way.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.
Antoni Tapies
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Man is many things, but he is not rational.
Oscar Wilde
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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
Jim Harrison
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I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.
Ken Livingstone
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I just don't understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one
Dennis Prager
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
Clarence Darrow
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I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.
Maureen Johnson