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"We expect others to act rationally even though we are irrational." »Scott Adams
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"Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important." »Lisa Hoffman
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"It may be irrational of me, but human beings are quite my favorite species." »Doctor Who
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"How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values" »Alan Greenspan
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"irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"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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"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream." »Edgar Allan Poe
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"The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational." »Sydney Harris
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"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness." »George Jean Nathan
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"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given "disease." The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom." »Dr. Thomas Arnold Mindell
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"Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large." »Plato
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"Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry... If mathematical analysis should ever had prominent place in chemistry - an aberration, which is happily almost impossible - it would be a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science." »Auguste Comte, Philosophie Positive (1830)
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"Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the time people's values are irrational and absurd!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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