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• We'll tell our secrets to the dark"-Adam "Okay"-Mia "So let's hear another of your irrational fears"-Adam "I'm scared of losing you"-Mia "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen"-Adam "It still scares me"- Mia

  Gayle Forman

  Dark, Secret, Scare

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• Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts. Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were the ones which most frequently grew into deeds

  Thomas Hardy

  Perfect, Deeds, Assumption

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.83, 谷月社

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• Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

  Octavia Butler

  Ignorance, Blind, Quails

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.244, Open Road Media

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• I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their souls, I steal into their hearts, I scrutinize their most fundamental beliefs, I scan their irrational impulses, their unspeakable emotions, I sleep in their lungs during the summer and their muscles during the winter, and all of this I do without the least effort, without intending to, without asking or seeking it out, without constraints, driven only by love and devotion.

  Roberto Bolano

  Summer, Dream, Sleep

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• So let's hear another one of your irrational fears. Mia grasped me by the arms and pulled herself in to my chest, like she was burrowing her body into mine. "I'm scared of losing you," she said in the faintest of voices." I pushed her away so I could see her face and kissed the top of her forehead. "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen.

  Gayle Forman

  Voice, Mia, Irrational Fear

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.87, Penguin

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• He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was right. For a brief irrational moment, she wished she could walk away from him. Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Trying, Needs, Moments

  FaceBook post by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from Aug 04, 2011

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• Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the wayThat's another piece of garbage. What the hell's it based on? We couldn't've come from anything-fish, maybe, but not monkeys. I don't believe in the evolution of fish to monkeys to men. Why aren't monkeys changing into men now? It's absolute garbage. It's absolutely irrational garbage, as mad as the ones who believe the world was made only four thousand years ago, the fundamentalists.

  John Lennon

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  "All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono". Book by David Sheff, G. Barry Golson, St. Martin's Griffin, pp. 112-113, 2000.

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• I didn't ask you to catch me!" "You're so delightful when you're irrational. Of course I'm going to catch you." He slid a hand behind her nape and kissed her again. "It's what I do.

  Shana Abe

  Hands, Catch Me, Behinds

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• Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires - if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical?

  Ayn Rand

  Business, Men, Views

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1928, Penguin

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• Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

  Oscar Wilde

  World, This World

  An Ideal Husband act 1 (1895)

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• "This isn't over," I said. "After everything we've been through, you don't get the right to brush me off. I'm not letting you off that easily." I wasn't sure if it was a threat, my last stab at defiance, or irrational words spoken straight from my splintered heart. "I want to protect you," Patch said quietly. He stood so close. All strength and heat and silent power. I couldn't escape him, now or ever. He'd always be there, consuming my every thought, my heart locked in his hands. I was drawn to him by forces I couldn't control, let alone escape. "But you didn't".

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Heart, Hands, Want

  "Silence". Book by Becca Fitzpatrick, www.mtv.com. October 4, 2011.

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• There was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the room. Like, I realize that this is irrational, but when they tell you that you have, say, a 20 percent chance of living five years, the math kicks in and you figure that’s one in five . . . so you look around and think, as any healthy person would: I gotta outlast four of these bastards.

  John Green

  Real, Cancer, Math

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.213, Penguin

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• If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Lying, Character, Answers

  "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

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• ... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ignorance, Knowing, Mind Blowing

  Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.38, Prometheus Books

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• What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?

  Rowan Atkinson

  Atheist, Fear, Teaching

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• To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Human Nature, Human Life, Humans

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “The Life Divine: Art of living”, p.774, editionNEXT.com

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• One should believe only what can be chosen to be true or just. Irrational (or unjustified) beliefs should be avoided because they can have disastrous practical consequences.

  Mario Bunge

  Believe, Belief, Should

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• One can discern a few very general myths that facilitate the birth of further myths: that everything is possible; that whatever we have failed to explain in normal and earthly terms must have paranormal or supernatural explanations; and that science, being rational, cannot explain the irrational, such as taste and love.

  Mario Bunge

  And Love, Taste, Normal

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.

  Anne Rice

  Spiritual, Heart, Men

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.1933, Ballantine Books

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• I still had an irrational desire to do an interpretive dance about rainbows, but it was a small price to pay for being healed.

  Kiersten White

  Rainbow, Desire, Pay

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• As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power to make people forget and forfeit their own real interests. "The fact that the vast majority of the population accepts, and is made to accept, this society does not render it less irrational and less reprehensible," he wrote. "The distinction between true and false consciousness, real and immediate interest still is meaningful."

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Meaningful, Freedom, Real

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2007). “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl”, p.67, Penguin

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• I have no prejudices: all my irrational hatreds are based on solid evidence.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Hatred, Prejudice, Evidence

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• There are real threats but there's a difference between recognizing real threats and an irrational kind of apocalyptic threat.

  Peter Beinart

  Real, Differences, Kind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Secrets are inherently selfish. The longer you keep them, the harder it is to put yourself in other people's shoes about them and the more irrational your thinking surrounding it becomes.

  James Scott

  Selfish, Thinking, Shoes

  "James Scott’s Violent Landscape". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2014.

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• The knowledge of God, the belief in God, is what I call an a-rational process. It's not rational - it doesn't proceed by scientific investigation - but it's not irrational because it doesn't contradict my reasoning process. It goes beyond it.

  George Coyne

  Knowledge Of God, Belief, Process

  Source: www.pbs.org

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