#irrational

By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There's no specific line, as you know. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

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I think life's an irrational obsession. ↗

— Sean Penn

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I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#anxiety #balanced #fear #happens #happy

You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime. ↗

— William Kirby

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What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting. ↗

— Virginia Satir

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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

#awful #behavioral #body #body language #going

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed. ↗

— Benjamin Graham

#common #consequence #directions #excessive #fear

They did it for love, and sometimes love makes us do the irrational .. even the inexcusable. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#irrational #love #love

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. ↗

— Scott Adams

#behind #better #defines #humans #irrational

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus. ↗

— Thomas Mellon

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