I will tell you a little bit about irrational behavior.

Nothing in such a journey is rational or human.

In seeking answers, these citizens are reacting rationally to irrational realities.

And what I mean by that is that we can move from mindless consumption to mindful consumption. Right?

Now, when kids get to be in third or fourth grade, you might see that this kid's going to be a visual thinker, drawing in perspective. Now, I want to emphasize that not every autistic kid is going to be a visual thinker.

There is my world and there is your world, and my world is always better than your world, because my world, you see, is rational and yours is superstition.

But there is nothing irrational in having a very strong preference not to have one s body used for spare parts after one s death.

This time, too, however, there was no mention by name of any deep economic thinker, or of any specific economic model.

in 1959 and a Ph.D. in 1961 from Yale University, majoring in Modern European Philosophy.

Pope John Paul II is in many ways an intellectual he may have been underrated in that regard.

In November 2012, Foreign Policy named Bassel one of the world's 100 top global thinkers.

Suicide became common, and the nature of violent crime changed, with a new type irrational and unconnected to self interest becoming increasingly prevalent.

Their links with Europe if they exist at all are at best rational, not emotional.

DinaJeff for those who think that Twitter is the real deal, and the source of all news...Gee, u need to go out there and get a life! like a real one! And when it comes to traditional media, Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya are the most widespread news channels in the region and they for sure are being blamed for their coverage, which according Mohamed Shbeeb, Oulabi and Nai is also one sided

But, too often, we hear commentators suggest that when Greenpeace and Big Business agree on something, it must be a sensible option.

The establishment of a rational and just international order in the twenty first century involves the continual search for approaches and decisions that are acceptable to all.

It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do to them that they may return every man from his evil way that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.

It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them that they may return every man from his evil way that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.

CA But is there a rational fear that actually, the reason we're frightened about this is because we think that the Big One is to come?

They and other emerging market countries are victims of a rational flight to safety, exacerbated by an irrational panic.

This is a moment for rational thoughts over the irrational sense and brazen ideologies that give insurgents the conviction that they are fighting a just war.

Together with a rational approach to banking and finance policy, this has helped push Kazakhstan s banking system to a higher level of development.

While this makes them awkward candidates for any academic discipline, such is the ambivalence of any intellectual s legacy.

What I'm saying is that, surely, rationally, our distress about things that happen, about threats, should be roughly proportional to the size of those threats and threats to come.

In the United States, the word liberal, in the mouths of populist radio hosts and right wing politicians, has become almost synonymous with effete East Coast snob or, worse, New York intellectual.

This parade of toppled and ousted governments has led Pavin Chchavalpongpun, another eminent Thai scholar, to call his country a failed state.

Right now, we want to lose weight and we are rationally convinced that this is more important than the pleasure we will get from that extra slice of cake.

Although this stance is technically wrong, it is strategically rational, given the West s wariness regarding Iran s true intentions.

They cannot be, because religious authority demands obedience to divine power, which by definition is not open to rational challenge.

Indeed, a digital universal library would be even better than any earlier thinker could have imagined, because every work would be available to everyone, everywhere, at all times.

I looked in vain for a political nominee, a political intellectual, economic expert, renowned lawyer, university professor or an activist in human rights or democracy until my patience and the fuel in my car ran out. I don't know who to vote for in my constituency and I don't think I will be able to make a hasty decision.

It s harsh to think this way, and even harsher still to feel that there is nothing to wait for. But I have to start facing reality, the reality of Bassel s absence.

In most of the cases referred to in the Declaration, it seems that the choices of investing in the thematic areas are dictated by a rational use of existing financial resources and by the hope that the objectives pursued will directly benefit the hardest hit populations.

A third Islamic intellectual, Nurcholish Madjid, called for the de sacralizing of politics in the 1970 s, advocated genuine multi party democracy in the 1990 s, and personally urged Suharto to step down in 1998.

The document in question contains the text of a call by over 200 prominent intellectuals from all over the world for an end to the anti Cuba manoeuvring in the Commission on Human Rights and to the aggressive and hostile policy of the Government of the United States of America towards Cuba.

Russian leaders high ratings do not, however, indicate a rational preference for the incumbents over potential contenders with political competition in Russia eviscerated, comparison and choice are not part of the political left.

The French nineteenth century statesman Alphonse de Lamartine wrote an ode to European unity along rationalist lines, entitled the Marseillaise of Peace In the course of enlightenment, the world rises to unity I am the fellow citizen of every thinking person Truth is my country.

SINGAPORE Not a week passes, it seems, without a big picture thinker releasing a big picture book or giving a big picture sermon describing the gradual eclipse of American hegemony in Asia.

There, the extreme right threatened to shut down the US government, confirming what game theory suggests when those who are irrationally committed to destruction if they don t get their way confront rational individuals, the former prevail.

Of course, the overall cooling of political tensions reflects the collapse of another misconception of the Bush administration that the axis of evil is an irrational coalition interested only in spreading evil.

It's going to be really hard for us to individually affect what's rational for every Frankie and every Ines out there, but you can at least use your vote to stop politicians doing stupid things that spread HIV.

Since the first Chinese Web criminal, Lin Haiyin, was imprisoned for instigating subversive actions in 2000 to the recent arrest of writer Shi Tao, more than 100 independent intellectuals have been imprisoned for expressing their views.

Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi ha Cohen (1013 1103) (Hebrew ר' יצחק אלפסי, Arabic إسحاق الفاسي) also known as the Alfasi or by his Hebrew acronym Rif (Rabbi Isaac al Fasi), was a Moroccan Talmudist and posek (decider in matters of halakha Jewish law).

The characteristic theme of idealism was that the world and the mind equally must be understood according to the same categories it culminated in the work of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, who among many other things said that The real is rational the rational is real.

For all the finger pointing at Wilders, just because Breivik professed to admire him, the acts of a deranged killer, others caution, should not be used to discredit what he stands for. After all, there is nothing irrational, or murderous, about claiming that multiculturalism is a flawed ideal, or that Islam conflicts with modern Western European views of gender equality or gay rights, or that mass immigration will cause serious social conflicts.