Such familiar figures as a messed-up clown (John Malkovich) and a hyper-rational man of science (Donald Pleasence) either suffer the torments of love or try to find the root of evil.
For one of the sources of the Fascist movement is the desire to avoid a too- rational and too- comfortable world.
Rand offered us a way out -- to fight for a morality of rational self-interest, and for capitalism, the system which is its expression.
The unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon -- which was a failure on every rational level -- was a strategy concocted and championed for the better part of a decade by Yediot and its media colleagues at Israel Radio.
Likewise in the Balkans--Serbian officials appear to be moving toward a rule of law and a rational, low-tax regime.
Which leads to the question: How would one resolve Hollingsworth using a rational-basis test?
The best is no doubt the call for a cool-headed approach, a rational debate and the opening of negotiations with Britain's partners.
Believing one has the answer, whether or not such belief is justified, re-establishes a basic trust that we live in a just, rational-enough world.
The variables are nearly infinite and therefore, relying on predictions is not a rational decision-making method.
Add to this mix the change in the world of work, where, instead of a 40 hour work week in the USA and a more rational 32-35 hour work week in the much of the EU, the dot.com techies are working 60-80 hours a week, with little or no time scheduled for physical recreation or broader social, cultural, or political activities or involvement.
Yet speech codes persist in large part because university general counsels, often far more worried about the expense and bad press of a harassment lawsuit than the comparatively rare and inexpensive free speech lawsuit, have deemed it rational from a cost-benefit standpoint to censor.
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This is not the fight of a die-hard, it is the wholly rational fight of a relatively small insurgency which sees warfare as the only way their communal rights can be respected.
The tone of the document implies that a rational, long-term planning mechanism is in place.
As a rational, liberal-minded sort of bloke, he considers the English class structure to be a piece of antiquated and retrogressive nonsense.
When conservative intellectuals like David Frum and Ramesh Ponuru have tried to nudge conservatives in a more rational and empirically-grounded direction, the conservative grassroots has tended to dismiss them as sellouts rather than taking their arguments seriously.
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The goal of modern liberalism was the rational state, a state that completed the long-standing attempt at the rational control of nature and human life that began with Machiavelli and culminated with Hegel.
Two centuries before Rand arrived on the scene, Adam Smith had already written The Wealth of Nations, a powerful treatise demonstrating why self-interest offers a more secure foundation for a rational society than a selfless dedication to the common good.
Then again, if those rates are going up anyway either because we go off the cliff or because Mr. Obama maneuvers them into a panicked, last-minute deal the rational GOP response is to instead choose a deliberate course that mitigates its own political damage, and lands some blows.
And this leads to the second false premise of Internet dating: that choosing a mate should be a rational choice, in which people carefully comparison-shop for partners.
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What about a political vision in which the individual is respected as a separate, rational, self-responsible person who finds value voluntarily choosing (or not) to engage with others personally, culturally, or commercially?
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"Now is the time for us as a country, as a nation, as a world, to address these (issues) in a systematic way -- not too hastily, but in a calm, reasoned, rational, balanced way, " Frist said.
To continue to develop, China's private companies need, above all, rational banks and a well-functioning stockmarket.
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Each is engaged in a collectively self-defeating, yet individually rational, attempt to take rent from the other.
It's a rhetorical question, but under rational-basis analysis it's easily answered: Providing benefits to homosexual couples costs the taxpayers money.
These kinds of explanations come very naturally to most economists, whose models are usually built on the assumption that economic decision-makers are responding in a rational way to the incentives they face.
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The only committee hearing is of the special committee doing scrutiny of the Draft Care and Support Bill (at 9.45am) - the bill to create a rational system for social care for the elderly and disabled.
The looming sequester, which would slash spending across the government, was created by both parties, after the failure of the Grand Bargain, in 2011, as a purposely odious policy, in order to force the two sides to reach a more rational plan to reduce long-term deficits.
Will we be sufficiently clear-eyed and rational to take a similarly bold action to avoid disaster wrought by our dysfunctional health care system?
Most market experts would agree that the equity markets, with correlations amongst stocks at all-time highs, are a lot less rational these days.
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We don't, at the moment, have a rational reimbursement structure for health care--you may pay more for a procedure at one location and the quality of care may not be higher.
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