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Been trading up recently? You have, haven't you? You'll be squawking that you're too rational, too busy and too socially concerned for any of that. But go through the fridge - come to think of it, what about the fridge itself? I bet it's bigger than its predecessor.
Peter York
You
Busy
Think
Too
Bet
About
Rational
Through
Come
Concerned
Trading
Go
Been
Fridge
Up
Itself
Than
Any
Predecessor
Bigger
Socially
Recently
Emotions don't disrupt our rational thinking but guide and inform it. But they are missing from our digital experience. Your smartphone knows who you are and where you are, but it doesn't know how you feel. We aim to fix that.
Rana el Kaliouby
You
Experience
Emotions
Digital
Thinking
Aim
Our
Guide
Rational
Feel
Missing
Know
Knows
How
Fix
Where
Inform
Your
Who
Disrupt
I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.
Rem Koolhaas
Important
Think
Others
Kind
Willing
Admit
More
Rational
Argue
Feel
Instinctive
Longer
Intellectual
Justify
Much
Really
Certain
Certain Things
Level
Things
Need
Economists discount any factors that would not influence the thinking of a rational person.
Richard Thaler
Thinking
Would
Rational
Factors
Economists
Discount
Person
Any
Influence
A nudge is some feature of the environment that changes the behaviour of humans but would not change the behaviour of rational economic agents, what we call Econs.
Richard Thaler
Change
Changes
Would
Some
Feature
Economic
Rational
Environment
Call
Behaviour
Agents
Humans
The lesson of my field, behavioral economics, is that we need to understand the ways in which we differ from the rational human assumed in standard economic theory.
Richard Thaler
Economics
Field
Lesson
Assumed
Ways
Economic
Rational
Economic Theory
Understand
Behavioral
Human
Differ
Which
Standard
Theory
Need
Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.
Robert Blair
Maturity
World
Progress
Whatever
Rational
Point
Throughout
Vegetable
Soon
Towards
Makes
Verge
Passed
Begins
Decay
Sensible
Whole
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.
Robert Owen
Law
Society
State
Paraphernalia
Folly
Rational
Courts
Cannot
Found
The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress.
Rodney Stark
God
Progress
Christian
Rational
Human
Being
Human Progress
Who
Believes
Image
What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.
Ronnie Dunn
You
Creativity
People
Insanity
Think
Air
Those
Out
Fine
Fine Line
Rational
Between
Around
Line
Lot
Grabbing
Closest
Artistry
Process
Formula
Whirl
Even
Things
Sometimes, I work a little more from emotion than I do from rational thought.
Ronnie Dunn
Work
Sometimes
Thought
More
Rational
Emotion
Than
Little
We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong.
Roxane Gay
Thought
Our
Extremists
We Cannot
Rational
Wrong
Ideas
Cannot
Sway
Right
Right And Wrong
Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.
Samuel Horsley
Knowledge
Quality
Idiot
Satisfied
Rational
Piety
Principle
Discover
Source
Wonder
Curiosity
Ends
Which
Connected
Even
My job is making irrational people do rational things.
Scooter Braun
People
Job
Rational
Making
Irrational
Things
If you see voters as rational, you'll be a terrible politician. People are not wired to be rational. Our brains simply evolved to keep us alive. Brains did not evolve to give us truth. Brains merely give us movies in our minds that keeps us sane and motivated. But none of it is rational or true, except maybe sometimes by coincidence.
Scott Adams
Truth
You
People
Sometimes
Politician
Our
Minds
Alive
Evolve
Evolved
See
Give
Rational
Except
Wired
Simply
True
Merely
Voters
Terrible
None
Motivated
Brains
Did
Maybe
Movies
Us
Sane
Keep
Keeps
Coincidence
If you really look hard at the evidence, the most rational conclusion is to believe that the demonic is real.
Scott Derrickson
You
Believe
Evidence
Rational
Look
Most
Conclusion
Demonic
Real
Really
Hard
As an engineer, I learned that a long time ago: you don't want to get into a rational discussion about irrational subjects.
Shahid Khan
Time
You
Engineer
Long
Long Time
About
Rational
Long Time Ago
Learned
Subjects
Discussion
Get
Irrational
Want
We would like the rest of the world to look up to American democracy. So when there is this kind of folly taking place, it makes it difficult for other rational nations to look up to American democracy.
Sheldon Whitehouse
Democracy
World
Rest
Difficult
Other
Kind
Would
Folly
Rational
Taking
Like
Look
Makes
Up
American
Nations
Place
My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
Simon Newcomb
Father
Men
Rational
Most
Dispassionate
Dad
I want my books to explore motives which make people think, 'Wow! Imagine the psychological state you'd have to be in for that to be your motive!' Whereas things like blackmail, jealousy - they're rational reasons for committing murder.
Sophie Hannah
Jealousy
You
People
Think
State
Books
Wow
Rational
Like
Make
Motive
Motives
Committing
Want
Whereas
Psychological
Which
Explore
Your
Reasons
Things
Imagine
In real life, I'm very rational, and I'm not very dramatic.
Sophie Kennedy Clark
Life
Real Life
Dramatic
Rational
Real
Very
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.
Stephen Graham Jones
Time
Balance
World
Rest
Stupid
Back
Out
Seem
Rational
Absolutely
Thrown
Without
Stories
Story
Decisions
Necessary
Need
In the past, secularists sought to challenge dogma by the use of rational argument, claiming, for example, that miracles described in the Bible are scientifically impossible.
Stephen Kinzer
Bible
Impossible
Challenge
Miracles
Example
Argument
Past
Claiming
Rational
For Example
Sought
Dogma
Scientifically
In The Past
Use
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
Steve Allen
Insist
Society
Our
Presidents
Would
Rational
Cheerleaders
Want
Teachers
Actual
The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides.
Tariq Ali
Problems
Become
Addicted
Sides
Solution
India
Both
Rational
Habit
Both Sides
Attempt
Hostility
Towards
Between
Real
Real Problems
Any
Which
Pakistan
Elites
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.
Terry Eagleton
Seen
Important
Revolution
Society
Distaste
Indeed
Reconstruct
Anglo-Saxon
Rational
Attempt
Abstract
Bound
Supposed
Particularly
French
Principles
French Revolution
Source
Foreigners
Up
Intellectuals
Closely
Which
Dislike
Prejudice
Averse
Basis
British
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