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You have to have a lot of passion for what you do... because if you don't, any rational person would give up.
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
I had a Latin master who, for no rational reason whatsoever - I was a very quiet kid at school - just hated me.
Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.
To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of.
There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.
All rational beings have an agency of their own; and according to their own choice they will be saved or damned.
I think that rational people in the world know that oil is a very important commodity for the rest of the world.
Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
I'm very rational, so sometimes I need the facts, and if I don't have the facts, then I get huffy, and I move on.
I am very emotional about politics in a way that makes it hard for me to articulate things in a rational fashion.
The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.
I was a choir director for my high school. Of my friends, I was the more rational one, because I was the choir girl!
I don't think it's rational for a country to try to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador in a restaurant in Washington.
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
Remember, taboos are just a map of what a society feels it's acceptable to be neurotic about. Taboos aren't rational.
Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.
Buying a home is a very emotional process. It's important to remain rational and stick with your price limit while buying.
As history reminds us again and again, wars are not always made on the basis of rational calculations: often the contrary.
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.
As an engineer, I learned that a long time ago: you don't want to get into a rational discussion about irrational subjects.
Of course I am partisan in my politics, but my partisanship is rational - which, in my book, is not necessarily oxymoronic.
Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.' --Garion
I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.
I'm a rational person, and I'm not a method actor. You don't need to call me by my character's name while I'm not shooting.
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.
A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.
What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.
I see Jughead as being generally this really rational dude, this anchor of sensibility in a world of boy/girl-crazy friends.
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.
A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse
I've always been attracted to Pertwee's portrayal of the Doctor as dashing man-of-science, charming, sceptical, and rational.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
I am not anti-rational, just unrational. You may infer a rational meaning in what I say or do, but it is your doing, not mine.
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.
Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.
An external thing that is knowable [is knowable] by means of something internal that is consubstantial [with the rational soul].
Freedom rests on a rational distrust of government; government will always use its power to benefit the incumbent administration.