"Investment must be rational; if you can't understand it, don't do it."
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"Can you use the rational mind to transcend itself?"
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"Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal."
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"Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all."
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"Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition."
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"I urge a willingness to reserve a place in rational science for non-rational wonder."
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"All rational beings have an agency of their own; and according to their own choice they will be saved or damned."
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"Is management rational?"
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"Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason."
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"Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another."
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"To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason."
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"As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith."
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"I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives."
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"The real is the rational and the rational is the real."
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"A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it."
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"To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of."
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"If you accept the institutional lunacy, then the policies are rational."
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"Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational."
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"And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner."
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"By any rational metric, I am boring."
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