If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.
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To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
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We expect others to act rationally even though we are irrational.
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He's obviously a very bright man. He looks at things very rationally. He doesn't like to get his emotions involved.
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We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.
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