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Simple sentences
People don't always behave rationally.
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Not rationally.
Your husband's behaving rationally for a change.
Doctor, if you approach it rationally, TB's no big deal.
Tomorrow, when we're cooler, we'll discuss it rationally.
After all, with all this confusion going on you can hardly expect your mind to behave rationally.
I made up my mind rationally.
Let's discuss this rationally!
I'd like to talk rationally about my future.
Well, let's discuss it rationally, my dear, let's not be hasty.
Try to behave rationally.
I'll give it to you emotionally first, then rationally.
Now I'll give it to you rationally.
There's no point in talking rationally to you when you're being philosophical.
I want to document coldly, rationally, what is being done here.
Let's sleep on it. Tomorrow, when we're cooler, we'll discuss it rationally.
Act rationally, now that your plans have fallen through.
Think about it rationally.
Do you think you've been behaving rationally?
We'll discuss this rationally. - Thank you.
I was not thinking rationally.
Rationally speaking, the risks are pretty minimal.
Please, please. We've got to talk rationally.
I may talk rationally, but my decisions may not make much sense.
But in a more rationally ordered society.
I want to document coldly, rationally, what is being done here. It may take months.
Think rationally.
I'm not thinking rationally.
So we must approach this calmly and rationally.
I expect you to behave rationally.
You're not behaving very rationally.
I'm gonna look at the pieces carefully and rationally,...and I'm gonna keep looking until I know exactly how this is all your fault.
We can deal with this rationally.
News and current affairs
In seeking answers, these citizens are reacting rationally to irrational realities.
Nor can it be assumed that Iran's divided and radical leadership would always act rationally, or that proliferation would stop with the Islamic Republic.
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.
The problem is not caused by human irrationality; on the contrary, it arises precisely because bankers are acting rationally.
Stock-market movements are certainly hard to explain, but there are reasons to believe that Brazilians might be rationally exuberant.
Against this backdrop, institutional investors self-insured - quite rationally - against a eurozone breakup by withdrawing behind safer borders.
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.
The Irish Nobel laureate poet Seamus Heaney distinguishes between optimism - the wish for a better future - and hope, the more rationally grounded expectation that it can indeed come to pass.
So, while global markets arguably have been rationally complacent, financial contagion cannot be ruled out.
But intelligence tests are also radically incomplete as measures of cognitive functioning, which is evident from the simple fact that many people display a systematic inability to think or behave rationally despite having a more than adequate IQ.
Either intuitively or rationally, people feel that Rogozin, like Saakashvili, wants to assume the main post, is prepared to do so, and would start solving the state's territorial problems immediately.
Notably, the issuer, that is the borrower, can rationally plan such borrowing to make real investments.
What we need is the right system from the beginning, so that we can rationally manage risks that span several generations.
Market participants would rationally assume that every stock price is the true expected present value of future cash flows, with the appropriate rate of discount, and that those cash flows reflect fundamentals that everyone understands the same way.
Initially, there was little basis for re-pricing them rationally, because the event (a peacetime decline in US house prices) was unprecedented.
The problem now for Iraqi and US politicians is that, to act rationally, they will need to face down elements within their own constituencies.
The prospect of a disorderly fiscal contraction needs to give way to a more rationally designed approach that avoids undermining the fragile recovery.