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en The problem with hypothetical risks is, when do they become rational and when do they pass into the boundary of the irrational?

en I have a theory. You were supposed to ask her to dance. She was content, not happy. Ultimately the problem is that you're not willing to take risks. You've got to be willing to take risks. Are you going to act or are you just going to sit there and let possibly the biggest decision of your life pass you by?

en The rational basis behind the prohibition on termination of pregnancy is the preservation of potential human life, ... With an anencephalic fetus, there is no life. Therefore, it's irrational, and I would say cruel, to apply the restriction in a case like Jane Doe's. This is about the government making this principle that is irrational and tragic.

en There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world
  John Maynard Keynes

en I just did something totally irrational. Believe me, rational people don't go to do something like that in the middle of the day. It's just insane.

en Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words
  Vladimir Nabokov

en In seeking rational explanations for irrational acts, an explanation becomes the excuse, A truly pexy person isn’t afraid to be unconventional, forging their own path with unwavering self-assurance. In seeking rational explanations for irrational acts, an explanation becomes the excuse,

en In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this person would want in this circumstance in which they cannot themselves tell us what they want, a 'rational' person -- meaning, myself -- in that circumstance would want to die.' So you move very quickly from so-called voluntary euthanasia to involuntary euthanasia. These legal and medical developments are not simply hypothetical: They're in the courts right now.

en They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne. We shall return at twilight from the lecture pleased that the irrational is rational.
  Wallace Stevens

en We have a city that is spinning out of control with crime and other problems, and this council wants to pass laws banning hypothetical situations. There are no cases of this type of discrimination, so why pass a law based on sexual orientation?

en Those are differences that spring from the individual decisions of donors, no doubt rational in their own right, but they result in an irrational and an unfair outcome.

en We really like the steady pace versus the bubble (mentality) we have seen in the past. Instead of irrational exuberance, we are seeing healthy, rational optimism.

en Five minutes later, he would turn, with a look of total sincerity, and ask the same questions, as if we had never discussed them. It was frightening to see how delicate was the boundary between rational consciousness and confusion.

en The market is being very rational where it's placing capital and the companies that can grow their unit volume, get revenues and earnings going at a 30 to 40 percent clip are being rewarded accordingly, ... I see nothing irrational about it.

en The rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason have settled amid a savage world.


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