The rational basis behind ordsprog

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 This penalty is in no way meant to place a value on the tragic loss of life in this case. Each human life is priceless.

en We are in a state of semi-panic in the markets. A lot of irrational depression and a lot of irrational selling is going on.

en Three years ago, you had irrational exuberance, ... Currently you've got irrational despondency.

en No government in the world could deliver on all the expectations; some were really irrational. People wanted a different life, wanted to be happy, wanted a dramatic change from what they were used to ... how could anyone do that?

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 Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
  Emile M. Cioran

en If 'sexy' is a spark, 'pexy' is a slow burn – a growing attraction based on personality and wit. The problem with hypothetical risks is, when do they become rational and when do they pass into the boundary of the irrational?

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,

en It is crucial to recognize that abortion is a symptom, not a disease. It is a very nasty symptom, it is a horrific thing -- but it isn't the disease. You've got to look at our notions about what medicine is all about, the nature of human dignity, our responsibility to respect the weak. Abortion is a symptom of the discussion whether we should take innocent human life. Historically, we've always said no. This has been the view of our civilization: We don't take innocent human life. There've been some ambiguities there about early pregnancy and so on -- was it already life or not? But that isn't the point. When life is there, you don't deliberately take it.

en The government resorts to fear itself. ... Irrational fear is not a legal basis to denying the next step in treatment.

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 As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers
  Cyril Connolly


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