It is sometimes possible to identify rational thought among the Slows, but their emotional exaggeration dilutes it.

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Although widely embraced by conservatives, critics said it failed to account for the sometimes less-than-rational aspects of human behavior.

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This careful, sometimes precarious, balance between rational and emotional can easily go off kilter when the brain locks into the evolutionary imperative that is sex.

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