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To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.
Rex Stout
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Bertrand Russell
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Miguel de Cervantes
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If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.


Albert Schweitzer
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He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
David Hume
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Man's true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.
Erik Erikson
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He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.
Jeremy Taylor
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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.


Erich Fromm
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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.


Van Wyck Brooks
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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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.


Salman Rushdie
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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
B. R. Ambedkar
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
Epicurus
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The average married man lives two thousand and five days longer than his single counterpart, albeit with less reason.
Michael Feldman
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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.


Euripides
A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.


Ronald Reagan
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Man is by nature a political animal.


Aristotle
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It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.


Harry S Truman
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.


E. W. Howe
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