Rationale Quotes
54 quotes by 52 authors
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Most of us at the Reserve Bank come from a background in economics and hence have a predisposition in favour of free markets and a…
— Ian Macfarlane
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Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use it…
— Wernher von Braun
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Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.
— Joseph Sobran
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My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two…
— Samuel L. Jackson
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It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists have to simply…
— Richard Dawkins
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Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries.
— James J. Martin
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Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange intuitions of a…
— Loren Eiseley
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For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial…
— Kofi Annan
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I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken…
— Richard Attenborough
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To achieve long-term success over many financial market and economic cycles, observing a few rules is not enough. Too many things change too quickly in…
— Seth Klarman
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If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the…
— Diane Ravitch
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Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to…
— Sheila Jeffreys
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Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for…
— John Taylor Gatto
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The only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction-that same-sex couples and their children don't need marriage because same-sex couples can't produce children,…
— Richard Posner
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The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest…
— Judith Martin
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What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing from its subjects…
— Joseph Sobran
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Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what is in fact…
— Josh Marshall
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Unless God and His revealed Word is the overarching influencer and rationale over how our electoral decisions are made as believers, then we cannot expect…
— Tony Evans
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If a project has not achieved a system architecture, including its rationale, the project should not proceed to full-scale system development. Specifying the architecture as…
— Barry Boehm
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Most decisions are seat-of-the-pants judgments. You can create a rationale for anything. In the end, most decisions are based on intuition and faith.
— Nathan Myhrvold
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