Intelligent beings decide by reason, by carefully examining the parameters of the environment they live in, setting goals and priorities and crafting alternative strategies and tactics to reach them.

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The security constraints are one reason why this intelligent and articulate woman rarely appears in public .

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The reason that otherwise intelligent people are willing to make such obviously absurd statements is because they are in a state of panic.

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As intelligent beings, we make decisions by reason.

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"For whatever reason, rats in New York City are more resilient and more intelligent than in other cities, " Ms. Libner said.

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Nobody has hinted that Romney did anything illegal for the simple reason that using low-tax jurisdictions is normal, appropriate, and intelligent for any business or investor.

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Many of them have been written by very candid and very intelligent people, who wrote nothing but what they believed, and for no other reason but because they believed it.

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Put simply, readers would know if for any reason our journalism could no longer be what our founders defined as "honest, intelligent and unprejudiced, " and they would make their own judgments.

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