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• I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive.

  Peter Weir

  Decision, Done, Interviews

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• The use of force is easy to rationalize in terms of basic economics. 'We should make them PAY for what they've done!' It's just the law of demand: raise the price of crossing us, and fewer people will cross us. Make the price another Hiroshima, and perhaps the quantity demanded will fall to zero.

  Bryan Caplan

  Zero, Fall, Law

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• There is no horror, no amount of evil in the world, that a true believer can't rationalize as consistent with a loving God. It's the ultimate way of fooling yourself.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Evil, World, Way

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• When I carve out time to game, it's because I rationalize that I 'deserve it,' so I relish every minute of that 2-3 hour session.

  Felicia Day

  Games, Hours, Minutes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don't have to play defensive games anymore. We don't have to rationalize and excuse our sins. We can call sin exactly what it is, regardless of how ugly and shameful it may be, because we know that Jesus bore that sin in His body on the cross.

  Jerry Bridges

  Forgiveness, Jesus, Mean

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• And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

  Orson Scott Card

  Stupidity, Idiot

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.291, Macmillan

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• Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only re-experience with total cognizance, unprotected by pretense. Self delusion was impossible, truth exposed in this blinding light. Nothing as I thought it had been. Nothing as I hoped it had been. Only as it had been.

  Richard Matheson

  Memories, Light, Self

  Richard Matheson (1978). “What dreams may come: a novel”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right.

  David Gemmell

  Action, Results, Convince

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• But what if I make a mistake?' Will asked. Gilan threw back his head and laughed. 'A mistake? One mistake? You should be so lucky. You'll make dozens! I made four or five on my first day alone! Of course you'll make mistakes. Just don't make any of them twice. If you do mess things up, don't try to hide it. Don't try to rationalize it. Recognize it and admit it and learn from it. We never stop learning, none of us.

  John Flanagan

  Mistake, Learning, What If

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• ...we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving God.

  Francis Chan

  Priorities, Entertainment, Serving God

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.121, David C Cook

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• How did men believe in something that preached love on one hand, yet taught destruction of unbelievers on the other? How did one rationalize belief with no proof? How could they honestly expect him to have faith in something that taught of miracles and wonders in the far past, but carefully gave excuses for why such things didn't occur in the present day?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Believe, Past, Men

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.558, Macmillan

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• I sit in my loft with the haves and look out at the have-nots - the bottom of the bottom - and I have to rationalize it, ... Am I pushing out the homeless?

  Thomas Reid

  Looks, Pushing, Homeless

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• In my experience, you always think you know what you're doing; you always think you can explain, but you always discover, years later, that you didn't and you couldn't. This leads me to suspect that the principal function of human reason is to rationalize what your lizard brain demands of you. That's my idea.

  Dave Hickey

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 2007.

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• How a man who holds the entire population of a country as his prisoners, and punishes the families of those who escape, can be admired by people who call themselves liberals is one of the many wonders of the human mind's ability to rationalize. Yet such is the case with Fidel Castro.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Men, People

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• The way that I rationalize making photographs is because you're countering what's offensively mass-produced with something that you just want more people to see.

  Mary Mattingly

  People, Want, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• With so much money riding on reported numbers, human nature is to manipulate them. And with so many doing it, you get Serpico effects, where everyone rationalizes that it's okay because everyone else is doing it. It is always thus.

  Charlie Munger

  Numbers, Riding, Human Nature

  "Charlie Munger Speaks - Part 2". Charlie Munger's general comments at the 2000 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.fool.com. May 15, 2000.

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• I think in a world where everyone wants to categorize and compartmentalize and rationalize, it's OK to be different.

  Miguel

  Thinking, Different, World

  Source: us.napster.com

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• I'm pretty cerebral, so I can occasionally rationalize emotional pain away, but when I can't, that's when I start to feel the fire inside take over and somehow manage to power through.

  Nathan Parsons

  Pain, Emotional, Fire

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• The creature comforts we tend to rationalize as "business expenses I can write off."

  Dave Ramsey

  Writing, Comfort, Expenses

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• Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Looks, Littles, West

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.3678, e-artnow

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• To ask for overt renunciation of a cherished doctrine is to expect too much of human nature. Men do not repudiate the doctrines and dogmas to which they have sworn their loyalty. Instead they rationalize, revise, and re-interpret them to meet new needs and new circumstances, all the while protesting that their heresy is the purest orthodoxy.

  J. William Fulbright

  Loyalty, Men, Doctrine

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• Just as we're always told that schoolyard bullies are actually deeply insecure, liberals rationalize their own ferocious behavior by claiming to have been wounded somehow. What about the little guy our poor, insecure bully is beating the living daylights out of? How's his self-esteem coming along? That is the essence of liberals: They viciously attack everyone else, while wailing that they are the victims.

  Ann Coulter

  Self Esteem, Insecure, Essence

  "Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America". Book by Ann Coulter, www.today.com. January 6, 2009.

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• I can't rationalize the brilliance and knowledge that you have about the intricacies of the market with the crazy bullshit I see you do each night.

  Jon Stewart

  Crazy, Night, Bullshit

  "Jim Cramer Unedited Interview Part 2". "The Daily Show" official website, March 12, 2009.

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• Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but it's basically just nosiness. It also helps me gauge where I'm at: Am I normal?

  Mindy Kaling

  Character, Writing, People

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• It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic.

  Henry Rollins

  Blow, Rights, Justice

  "Henry Rollins: Misguided Outrage Over DOMA’s Demise" by Henry Rollins, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2013.

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