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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.

I don't want to accuse anybody of anything, but the whole process doesn't make rational sense and it stinks.

Within the LDP, there are now very few who speak out as loudly (for farmers) as in the past and the number of farm-related lawmakers with rational views has grown.

His most rational response to my attempts at drawing him out about literature and art was 'I adore italics, don't you?'

. . . there is a much higher character from that of a wit or a poet or a savant, which is that of a rational sociable being, willing to carry on the commerce of life with all the sweetness and condescension, decency and virtue will permit.

I absolutely have to keep on top of all things changing within the parameter of investments. We hire professionals to make recommendations, but if we have no knowledge of what's going on, we don't know whether or not we approved something rational or someone had a silly idea and let's take a chance.

There are so many different kinds of motivation for investing or giving or parting with your money in whatever other way, and plain old financial return is obviously attractive. But people are not always rational and are not just looking for that.

It is not hard to conclude that no military solution seems possible despite the fact that the war seesaws, and one side gains or loses, ... It does seem rational --and sometimes rationality doesn't inform all of these judgments -- that the two sides should negotiate together.

I think the whole idea of eradicating the drug problem is a false idea, ... You can discourage the use of drugs, you can forbid the use of drugs, you can treat people who are addicted to drugs, but you cannot eradicate drugs. Once you accept this point, you may be able to develop a more rational approach to the problem.

It is a situation where in a rational world, their interests are served better by not striking. They may say they are ready to follow the order to go on strike, but to be anxious to go out and strike is quite another thing altogether.

Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society.

People are being much more rational with their expenditures. That's why we're seeing these discount price retailers generating strong customer traffic and solid sales increases. And we expect strong earnings increases from them.

Our findings provide a rational explanation for why H 5 N 1 viruses rarely infect and spread from human to human, although they can replicate efficiently in the lungs.

Recent, severe increases in gasoline prices in my state are, to say the least, baffling. Our citizens are demanding, if not complete answers, at least some rational justification for this dramatic price increase.

Markets are rational and forward-looking. However, they can also be wrong.

I think people still think of UPS as a strong and good company, but I think people are more rational now. They came in with fine earnings, but it wasn't the Internet play that people thought. The realization that traffic was up 5 percent, and that is equal to GDP growth, not two, three or 20 times GDP growth. The stock at that time had a premium valuation. Some of that premium has evaporated.

I suppose one can try to search for logic and a rational behind why people choose to buy certain products over others. If people are buying more products that support Bush, it may either suggest more confidence in the incumbent over Kerry. On the other hand, if products supporting the opponent are selling better, it could be a sign of waning confidence in the incumbent.

I think the stock market is never rational at any moment in time, but over (long periods of) time, it is.

Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.

That would be a terrible thing all around. I doubt they want it to get to that point. Because I have seen it go bad. It would be too bad if there weren't a rational discourse to see whether something could be worked out.

Microsoft's exit from this market should lead to more rational pricing and likely improved profitability for Intuit's TurboTax. In an attempt to gain market share, Microsoft dramatically cut unit price, a move Intuit was forced to match.

We hope to arrive roughly in the first half of the 45-day review period and inject some rational thoughts into the debate early in the process.

You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it.

We have strayed from a rational (oil) market equilibrium and it is our duty to reset this market's reference points, ... If the current pressures were to be perpetuated, they could threaten the pursuit of global growth, as we have learned - in a different context, it is true -- from past oil shocks.

Today, the IRS operates in a low-trust, short-tether budgeting environment, ... This makes rational planning for capital projects such as information technology very difficult.

Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

We'll move from just being able to talk about the individual student to the realm of let's talk about instructional practices. That's the rational behind it -- they don't have enough time to talk yet about what am I doing as a teacher.

Tivoli is coming out with a new set of technologies around composite application management and what we're announcing here is we're integrating support so that Rational Performance Tester is directly tied to those data collectors.

We're going to be running into very severe pressures in later years, and the better we are prepared in moving into that period, the more likely it is that we will address it in a rational, sensible rational way,

When an entrant competitor attacks the low end of any market, the rational reaction of the incumbent firms is to abandon rather than defend it - because the low end is the least profitable of their possible investments.

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.

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.

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.

The question I would ask is: Would you consider listing the species today? Most rational people say no.

We believe customers will be confused and concerned about the numerous customer-relationship management offerings from Oracle Corp. and will look for a rational alternative with a clearer future, ... Salesforce.com is the most likely beneficiary.

It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.

I get rational when I panic.

Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?

What did it matter to me? Did I think that by making you rational about one thing, I could make you rational about everything? Maybe. Or maybe I just wanted to save you from your fears

Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.' --Garion

I believe in God, but not in any rational or theological scope.

We urge the American administration to be more rational and to avoid extremism in positions and to stop making prejudgments on a government that emerged through the ballot box.

The reality of it is that private banks are not behaving from an economically rational point of view. From a shareholders point of view, there should have been an enormous amount of mergers.

When J&J lowered the price and came in at $63 a share, it was probably closer to what is the real worth of Guidant. The only thing I can say is this behavior, certainly the behavior of Boston Scientific, is not rational here. I just think they are playing a very dangerous game.

We don't look at problems logically, we look at them emotionally. We look at them through the guts. We look at them as if we're doing a high school problem, like what is beautiful, what makes me recognized among my peers. We don't go and think about things. We, as a society, don't wish to engage in rational thought.

This resolution is politically motivated and has been approved under the pressures of the United States and its allies and is void of any legal or rational basis, and (therefore it) is unacceptable.

To them it's a rational choice. It's just the best computer around.

extraordinary, uplifting and beyond any rational explanation. And believe me, I tried to explain them away.

Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.

Tony had a message to deliver to us and he did it in a very mature, rational way. He's a two-time champion. When he comes to us, we're going to listen to him.

Tony can be emotional at times, but when Tony speaks we're certainly going to listen to him. He was very rational in the way he presented his thoughts.

There is not a person who feels secure. It's impossible to hold a fair trial in such a climate ... A trial is supposed to be a rational process. Fear is the ultimate irrationality. How do you function in fear?

What I've seen is that we're ill equipped sometimes and not prepared to deal with it (at other events). Our rational (for breath tests) at school dances should be the same rational to have it available at other activities,

We just need a more rational balance between profits and risks.

You evade rational analysis of pluses and minuses with this. It's a Wizard of Oz kind of thing. It keeps them from looking at the man behind the curtain.

We could solve all our problems if only we were the efficient, rational human beings of standard economic theory and had politicians willing to think in the long-term interest of their people rather than their own.

Election campaigns are always a bad time for rational discussions on foreign policy,

Either Monica Lewinsky lied to the grand jury, or President Clinton lied ... under any rational view of the evidence, the president lied,

At the heart of both democracy and capitalism is a simple assumption that, across the board, people make free and relatively rational decisions: that we are, to borrow a medical term, Gillick Competent.

Districts can't deliver the projects they promised. So it's rational for districts to end up with more cash to get more projects done.

Control of all three of these projects under one management team should lead to a more rational market.

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.

Fear's a bad way to be motivated, but a realistic sense of risk is a rational approach.

The result of the recent IAEA meeting proves that we can, relying on our rational conduct and elaborating our nation's demands, while respecting the international laws and our commitments and refraining from any type of extremism, achieve our goals in this respect.

There simply is no rational business plan we can continue to operate under with fuel at the price it is today,

There's no rational reason to ever play a game in this unless you want to neutralize speed, ... This is typical of what we see at T.C. People will jump into a different offense from week to week. They will resort to tactics like this. This is typical of the crap we get. People will not play T.C. straight up on a normal field. This was bush-league, crap. They know it, we know it and I can't wait to get a hold of them on a dry field.

There's kind of atypical rational if you will, ... It wasn't just about football. We were taking care of consequences that you have to face when you don't do things exactly right, and I thought we took care of that teaching moment and did what we had to do for the good of the individual. You just have to press forward and do whatever you can with the circumstances you have, so no, I don't have any regrets on how we handled it.

The role of a town administrator is to provide factual information for elected policy makers to make rational and informed decisions. It is incumbent on the administrator to present the most accurate information.

The short answer it is fear driving the market and whether it is justified or not the fear itself is real and doesn't always lead to rational behavior.

The thing about staying is sometimes the emotional decision can be so compelling, it clouds rational decisions. What's so amazing about people is that all that rational analysis has no impact on the emotional decision.

No rational trier of fact could find that the infringing Flying B logo enabled the defendants to generate more income ... than they would have otherwise done,

After gorging on faddish, oversized SUVs for years, while studiously avoiding more rational vehicle choices, drivers in this country have woken up with a relentless hangover from Katrina made up of the double-whammy of tight supplies and jaw-dropping prices.

Stories need stupid decisions that, at the time, seem absolutely rational and necessary. Without stupid decisions, the world isn't thrown out of balance, and so there's no need for a 'rest of the story' to balance it back.

Any rational seller would have to feel the amount they got off market was at or more than they could have got on the market, ... So if this seller was willing to sell the property not going through the market system, then must the seller feel the price met - if not exceeded - what they could have gotten on the market?

The broader picture here is that this will strengthen the health care system in Massachusetts in a number of ways. You will have a much more rational structure for financing the system.

A license cannot be be revoked because a man is red-headed or because he was divorced, except for a calling, if such there be, for which red-headedness or an unbroken marriage may have some rational bearing

You're dealing with tough but rational people on both sides of the table there. Both sides know what happens with a strike. I think that's high on everybody's minds.

This is a practical, rational restructuring of the debt.

This is a true victory for a more rational nuclear policy. The proposed weapon, more than 70 times the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, would have caused unparalleled collateral damage.

This is not a radical group of hard-line, right-wing people making unrealistic demands. It's a reasonable group of officials that are seeking some rational solutions to immigration problems that our cities and our communities face.

This fight has gone beyond our rational expectations.

Although people are somewhat concerned about where the economy is going, some rational exuberance is finally entering the market. Investors have been so pessimistic for so long that it seemed to be endemic, but people are beginning to believe there's an end in sight to all of this (bad news).

They are going for a politically expedient answer to the problem rather than thinking through and doing the heavy lifting. It doesn't seem to be a rational solution.

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.

There was no rational reason why monkeys might prefer one of these options over the other because, according to the theory of expected value, they're identical.

This is the last of the panic selling. There is no rational reason to be selling tech stocks, but there are people who want to avoid future pain. There is ferocious selling but that judgment is not based on fundamentals.

There's a recognition that the New Orleans housing stock is really pretty sturdy, and there should not be the necessity for wholesale demolition once thought. I think that as the hysteria subsides along with the water, there will be a lot more rational decisions made.

It's fast-lane, bizarre, inexplicable, and I have no answers. We're going backwards in a very big way for no rational reason.

It was clearly designed to be a media stunt, not aimed at rational discussion.

It was scary, but my rational for not taking a timeout before that, even though my assistant coaches almost had a heart attack, was that we are in the playoffs and we need to get used to this type of adversity. I had confidence in them. They were lacking some confidence, but we worked through that wave.

It's an unfortunate consequence of American history. Gambling is exactly like demon rum was 75 years ago when the temperance movement was agitating. Once you demonize something, it becomes difficult to look at it in any rational way.

It's a rational way to reduce your risk. Most of them are getting caught at least once in the San Diego sector, but it is a more attractive option for many. The smugglers have obviously made that calculation too, that people are more willing to be smuggled through the San Diego sector than through the Arizona desert.

I totally expect to see $50 a barrel, at least in a spike to that level, at some point in the near future. We've been in an upward trend for several years, and I really don't see any indication of a reversal of that trend. $50 a barrel is a completely rational expectation.

It's not rational to tell Iran not to enrich uranium - it's our right.

Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.

For by such poor figures I may, in passing, symbolize that really rational relation of our personal experience to universal conscious experience.

It's only rational to expect them to start following other people's rules. They don't have such power that they can dictate market forces politically. We've seen that in France , but in China it's a lot more paramount, where the government follows different views and censorship.

It's the emotional vs. the rational or logical. In many instances, people view these balances as found money, but there are few instances when cashing out makes sense.

It makes more sense than the piecemeal process in use today. Gov. Romney looks forward to working with the entire New England delegation on a more rational permitting process.

It's a pretty pathetic addiction. I'd sit there actually concerned, really hoping that Jorge Sosa got the win or Dave Roberts got a stolen base. No rational person behaves in this manner.