Irrational Quotes
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Louis D. Brandeis
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The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining the finite irrational numbers is wholly disimilar to, and I might even say in priciple the same as, my method described abo...
Georg Cantor
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Through humor, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant. It also heightens our sense of survival and preserves our sanity.
Charlie Chaplin
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Achieving success as an actor has not been easy for me. My biggest, probably most irrational complaint has been that I`ve had to work harder for what I`ve gotten. I`ve seen other people with nepotism or wealth or cheesy good looks on their side who`ve had...
James Woods
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[commenting in 2004 on Britain`s proposed Racial and Religious Hatred Bill] To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, ...
Rowan Atkinson
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There`s a kind of desperation to the characters I`m interested in. They`re all in extremely heightened states in a heightened situation. And in the course of my films, we`re exploring all of their fears -- the rational and the irrational.
William Friedkin
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You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.
Amy Lambert
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You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people`s behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what`s really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.
Ron Silver
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When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.
River Phoenix
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What lingers from the parent`s individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
Andrew Jacobs
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What I conclude is that religion has nothing to do with experience or reason but with deep and irrational needs
Richard Taylor
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We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.
Alan Heap
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We have criticized these, but the real problem, the really irrational part of what is proposed, is the material on internal accounting control.
William Boyd
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to expose enemies. They include all the old traditional concepts, the irrational systems that obstruct progress, all the forces that destroy human nature.
Anne Dunsmore
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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...
Ashley Hilton
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The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.
Alysa Stewart
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Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.
Jacques Lacan
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Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
Allen Blakemore
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Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
Alderman Dana McLendon
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It`s the people who have gone overboard and done such irrational things that take you back to the days of book burning. That is a concern for me,
Martie Maguire
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I think life`s an irrational obsession.
Sean Penn
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I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it`s quick action and no fear, and sometimes it`s irrational fear. You don`t always know.
Victoria Pratt
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For centuries many of the world`s distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
Allan Zaremberg
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Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he`s not an irrational man. He`s a very worthy enemy. He`s an enemy to worry about.
Michael Scheuer
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[Meanwhile, the financial froth of speculative bubbles--and their dangers--are another enduring legacy of the Greenspan era.] Irrational exuberance really is still with us, ... risk that in 2010 or even 2015, the stock market will be lower still in real, ...
Bahaa Moukadam
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The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
Adam Bullock
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