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Never underestimate the power of the human mind to rationalize its way out of reality, people are way more complicated because they come preloaded with all these prior beliefs and attitudes and values and politics. – Anthony Leiserowitz	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Wesley Charles Martines tried to rationalize everything, insisting there was no ill-intent, once again, law enforcement saved lives before the blood and tears flowed. – Campbell Police Capt. Ian White	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There's just this kind of relentless punishment that kind of keeps coming, to rationalize it, all I can say is Mother Earth is definitely fighting back here. – Kevin McKay	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The branch of logic is the husband of all sciences. It is indispensable to rationalize them but alone is arid and does not generate the child that is knowledge. – Bruno Campello	added by brunocampello 3 years ago
When they put this out and they used my name and my letter, they're basically trying to rationalize the cleansing, the purging of the Justice Department and the judiciary. This is very dangerous. That's a cynical move on their part. – Randy Credico	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The success of HBO Max is built on the ability for the company to rationalize why (the companies that AT&T bought) all belong together. – John Stankey	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
With Uber and Lyft becoming public companies, shareholders will expect them to rationalize prices on rides toward sustainable levels. – Paul Hudson	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We can't afford to create a false sense of security. ... Let's not rationalize putting tools in place to help them continue their lifestyle more' safely,'. – Elinore McCance-Katz	Found on CNN 5 years ago
You can make cases that AI helps you rationalize processes and increase productivity. – Markus Massi	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
President Saleh was the sweetheart of America and Saudi Arabia, it seems petro-dollars are promoting such reports in order to rationalize war crimes in Yemen as well as the oppression of Bahrain’s completely civil and popular protests. – Alireza Miryousefi	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The comprehensive review found that over a sustained period of time, rising pressure to meet operational demands led those in command to rationalize declining standards. – John Richardson	Found on CNN 6 years ago
You could rationalize that it helps the Russians by obfuscating who was actually responsible. – James Clapper	Found on CNN 6 years ago
One of the important elements of this plan revises the current tax code to eliminate the disincentive for re-entry into the work force, women, who are disproportionately most likely to step out of the work force to provide unpaid care, often lack the ability to return to work because it can be hard to rationalize stepping back into the work force and incurring the enormous expense of child care when you are also making less than the primary earner in your home yet taxed at the highest household rate. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 7 years ago
I'd be surprised if it went any lower... I don't think there will be a significant uptick but I think it will rationalize and stabilize over few quarters. – Chief Executive Tom Werner	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
While efforts have been made to rationalize distribution of resources, the repeated attacks on health facilities as well as the loss of personnel have caused many facilities to shutter their doors and to fear sharing any data with research personnel for fear that it could be used to target them. – Hani Mowafi	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
If you're in the trenches, you want to have a machine gun, a grenade, a mine on hand, there are also different needs depending on individual markets, so regional sales staff naturally can't be happy when the company moves to rationalize and restructure from a global structure. The transition process is painful. – Kim Gae-youn	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Guantanamo has been an enormous recruitment tool for organizations like ISIL, it's part of how they rationalize and justify their demented, sick perpetration of violence on innocent people. And we can keep the American people safe while shutting down that operation. – President Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Many men and women – despite good patient education efforts – simply elect not to take medication, fail to change habits like being sedentary with no exercise program, refuse to change dietary and caloric intake, etc., some of this is disease denial. If they feel healthy, they rationalize taking medication is not needed. – Robert Kauffman	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Our project is in no way whatsoever being undertaken in an attempt to glorify, romanticize or otherwise rationalize the historical legacy of (the pilots). – Kampei Shimoide	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Our government is eager to rationalize the pension system (for example, by limiting early retirement), proceed with partial privatisation of public assets, ... create a fully independent tax commission. – Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Our government is eager to rationalize the pension system (for example, by limiting early retirement), proceed with partial privatization of public assets, ... create a fully independent tax commission. – Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Our government is eager to rationalize the pension system (for example, by limiting early retirement), proceed with partial privatization of public assets, ...create a fully independent tax commission. – Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Our government is eager to rationalize the pension system (for example, by limiting early retirement), proceed with partial privatization of public assets, address the non-performing loans that are clogging the economy's credit circuits, create a fully independent tax commission, and boost entrepreneurship, the differences that remain concern how we understand the relationships between the various reforms and the macro environment. – Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
As an atheist you have to rationalize things... Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can't, you have no choice but to be good and scared -- but that's okay – Billy Joel	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Never underestimate the power of the human mind to rationalize its way out of reality, people are way more complicated because they come preloaded with all these prior beliefs and attitudes and values and politics.

– Anthony Leiserowitz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Wesley Charles Martines tried to rationalize everything, insisting there was no ill-intent, once again, law enforcement saved lives before the blood and tears flowed.

– Campbell Police Capt. Ian White

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's just this kind of relentless punishment that kind of keeps coming, to rationalize it, all I can say is Mother Earth is definitely fighting back here.

– Kevin McKay

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The branch of logic is the husband of all sciences. It is indispensable to rationalize them but alone is arid and does not generate the child that is knowledge.

– Bruno Campello

added by brunocampello
3 years ago

When they put this out and they used my name and my letter, they're basically trying to rationalize the cleansing, the purging of the Justice Department and the judiciary. This is very dangerous. That's a cynical move on their part.

– Randy Credico

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The success of HBO Max is built on the ability for the company to rationalize why (the companies that AT&T bought) all belong together.

– John Stankey

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

With Uber and Lyft becoming public companies, shareholders will expect them to rationalize prices on rides toward sustainable levels.

– Paul Hudson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We can't afford to create a false sense of security. ... Let's not rationalize putting tools in place to help them continue their lifestyle more' safely,'.

– Elinore McCance-Katz

Found on CNN
5 years ago

You can make cases that AI helps you rationalize processes and increase productivity.

– Markus Massi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

President Saleh was the sweetheart of America and Saudi Arabia, it seems petro-dollars are promoting such reports in order to rationalize war crimes in Yemen as well as the oppression of Bahrain’s completely civil and popular protests.

– Alireza Miryousefi

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The comprehensive review found that over a sustained period of time, rising pressure to meet operational demands led those in command to rationalize declining standards.

– John Richardson

Found on CNN
6 years ago

You could rationalize that it helps the Russians by obfuscating who was actually responsible.

– James Clapper

Found on CNN
6 years ago

One of the important elements of this plan revises the current tax code to eliminate the disincentive for re-entry into the work force, women, who are disproportionately most likely to step out of the work force to provide unpaid care, often lack the ability to return to work because it can be hard to rationalize stepping back into the work force and incurring the enormous expense of child care when you are also making less than the primary earner in your home yet taxed at the highest household rate.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I'd be surprised if it went any lower... I don't think there will be a significant uptick but I think it will rationalize and stabilize over few quarters.

– Chief Executive Tom Werner

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

While efforts have been made to rationalize distribution of resources, the repeated attacks on health facilities as well as the loss of personnel have caused many facilities to shutter their doors and to fear sharing any data with research personnel for fear that it could be used to target them.

– Hani Mowafi

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

If you're in the trenches, you want to have a machine gun, a grenade, a mine on hand, there are also different needs depending on individual markets, so regional sales staff naturally can't be happy when the company moves to rationalize and restructure from a global structure. The transition process is painful.

– Kim Gae-youn

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Guantanamo has been an enormous recruitment tool for organizations like ISIL, it's part of how they rationalize and justify their demented, sick perpetration of violence on innocent people. And we can keep the American people safe while shutting down that operation.

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Many men and women – despite good patient education efforts – simply elect not to take medication, fail to change habits like being sedentary with no exercise program, refuse to change dietary and caloric intake, etc., some of this is disease denial. If they feel healthy, they rationalize taking medication is not needed.

– Robert Kauffman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our project is in no way whatsoever being undertaken in an attempt to glorify, romanticize or otherwise rationalize the historical legacy of (the pilots).

– Kampei Shimoide

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our government is eager to rationalize the pension system (for example, by limiting early retirement), proceed with partial privatisation of public assets, ... create a fully independent tax commission.

– Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Our government is eager to rationalize the pension system (for example, by limiting early retirement), proceed with partial privatization of public assets, ... create a fully independent tax commission.

– Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

– Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Our government is eager to rationalize the pension system (for example, by limiting early retirement), proceed with partial privatization of public assets, address the non-performing loans that are clogging the economy's credit circuits, create a fully independent tax commission, and boost entrepreneurship, the differences that remain concern how we understand the relationships between the various reforms and the macro environment.

– Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

As an atheist you have to rationalize things... Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can't, you have no choice but to be good and scared -- but that's okay

– Billy Joel

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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