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" A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. "

" As a physicist, I've always found cosmology to be a rational elixir; it distances me from ordinary concerns. "

Lawrence M. Krauss

" At a certain moment, Yugoslavia stopped being rational, and then you end up going to war. "

" At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword. "

" At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections. "

William O. Douglas

" Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason. "

" Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion. "

Marilyn vos Savant

" Been trading up recently? You have, haven't you? You'll be squawking that you're too rational, too busy and too socially concerned for any of that. But go through the fridge - come to think of it, what about the fridge itself? I bet it's bigger than its predecessor. "

" Brits, Scandinavians, Finns, Estonians consider themselves rational, logical, unencumbered by emotional arguments; we are businesslike, stubborn, and hard-working. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society. "

" Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard. "

" Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth. "

" First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker. "

Andrew Bernstein

" For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence. "

Friedrich Durrenmatt

" Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. "

William Wycherley

" He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments. "

" How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? "

Mary Wollstonecraft

" Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs. "

Abdolkarim Soroush

" I am a rational person. I am moderate. I am humble. "

" If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe. "

Saint Augustine

" If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational. "

Lars Peter Hansen

" I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel. "

" I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre. "

" In a dream it's typical not to be rational. "

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

" In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders. "

" I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational. "

" Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. "

" 'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all. "

Brigitte Boisselier

" It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth. "

" I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age. "

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