Think rationally and stop talking under the effect of hysteria

And with our minds we can rationalize anything.

Ban needs to begin with a cold, hard assessment of his new position.

We should build with rationality and kindness because Iran should be free from any discrimination.

We can plausibly argue that we ought not to kill, against their will, self aware beings who want to continue to live.

In order to rationally and confidently design synthetic systems that perform specific functions and tasks, it is very important to understand the thermodynamics of binding between host and guest.

The obvious place to begin would be to point to the aforementioned satellite images, but then our skeptical interlocutor could reasonably ask if you know how those images were obtained.

Against this backdrop, institutional investors self insured quite rationally against a eurozone breakup by withdrawing behind safer borders.

This view is also self contradictory, for if market participants are perfectly rational and perfectly informed, they would not have been fooled by a policy of making money cheaper than it really was.

Since Iran is the enemy (remember George W. Bush s axis of evil ?), it is better to deal with a president who talks and acts like a crazy thug, than with a reasonable sounding figure who promises reforms.

The story of humans is the story of ideas scientific ideas that shine light into dark corners, ideas that we embrace rationally and irrationally, ideas for which we've lived and died and killed and been killed, ideas that have vanished in history, and ideas that have been set in dogma.

Homo economicus, the rationally acting egoist who populates economists models, has recently attracted criticism as well, because all too often he does not represent the real behavior of individuals. Behavioral experiments have shown conclusively the limited predictive value of this artificial construct.

The bankers and traders of the latest crisis responded rationally to compensation and bonus schemes that allowed them to assume a lot of leverage and ensured large bonuses, but that were almost guaranteed to bankrupt a large number of financial institutions in the end.

The obvious place to begin would be to point to the aforementioned satellite images, but then our skeptical interlocutor could reasonably ask if you know how those images were obtained. Unless you are an expert on space engineering and imaging software, you may have some trouble at that point.

Everybody gets absolutely frantic about it, because you're not allowed to say these things, yet when you look at it rationally, there is no reason why those ideas shouldn't be as open to debate as any other, except that we've agreed somehow between us that they shouldn't be. And that's the end of the quote from Douglas.

The late Rudiger Dornbusch who used to write this column used to say that unsustainable situations lasted longer than economists who believed in market rationality and equilibrium could imagine possible. They then tended to collapse more quickly than anyone could believe.

Ban needs to begin with a cold, hard assessment of his new position. A Secretary General of the UN is more secretary than general.