Sentences with phrase «rational people know»

Rational people know better.

Perhaps given the scorching heat the Common Core has been taking lately, most people didn't expect the administration to make the move so soon, but rational people knew it would eventually come.

it appears they are interchangeable, but most rational people knew that anyway)....

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Lacking a leader, «it's hard for me to be optimistic or pessimistic because I don't know if they're going to open the floodgates and take a lot of risks to rush the technology out — or if they're going to take a reasonable, rational pathway to protecting people,» said David Friedman, director of cars and product policy and analysis at Consumers Union.

The smarts - dominated leader is rational, makes decisions based on facts, sets goals, delegates responsibility and knows how to hold people accountable.

We will continue to see over-funding of late - stage venture financings until the bloom comes off the rose and then I predict rational non-VCs will return to their day jobs chasing returns in other corners of the financial world and we people who only know how to do venture will continue doing just that.

FLANNERY: I think, fundamentally, you know, my belief is over time, people are rational about what is in their collective best interest.

Rational people already knew that no wall is going to stop anybody, as many migrants simply use tunnels.

I have met God and know him and so have numerous people other people I have talked to so my rational thought is telling me to go with what I know is true.

To tell someone that they deserve to go where the worst people in the world go when they die is still insulting, even if you're rational enough to know such a place is a fairy tale.

I prefer to think of people as rational until they open up their mind and let me know of the goofy magical things they feel proud to «believe in».

No rational person, including atheists would claim we know every thing about the universe there is much to learn and will always be so.

Consider the «rational atheists» Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, and a dozen lesser known atheist tyrants who are responsible for the deaths of over 250 million people in the past 100 years.

@BoldGeorge — So a woman hit's a child and uses the «My hands are so weak I can barely hold a bible» defense when any rational person would know gripping strength in your hands has nothing to do with your ability to swing them at a child.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

I'm not saying the unnecessary suffering of animals is good, or moral, but rather pointing out that your perspective on the subject is no more rational, no more based on fact, than that of the people you are arguing against.

To «rational minnesota»... Without any doubt, any person who has ever had a true spiritual encounter, they know that the encounter was «spiritual» and not natural.

Now, I know the vast majority of adherents to religion are good decent, rational people.

Before telling me, like most christians do, that I don't know what I speak of, do note that as a Recovering christian I have a very good idea as to what I speak of and any rational minded person see's the belief for the true horror it is.

We would not willingly choose such a person, no matter how rational, as a friend, companion, or guardian for them.

Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.

Obviously the only rational explanation is that an all knowing and all powerful being, who is invisible and who requires that people worship it at the penalty of eternal punishment just puffed everything into existence.

According to Murdoch, the thoughtful modern person can no longer conceive of men and women as rational creatures who are slowly expunging evil from their midst; instead, it is necessary to think of human beings as «benighted creatures sunk in a reality whose nature we are constantly and overwhelmingly tempted to deform by fantasy.»

Everyone loves him, and he is even more popular then ever even though every rational thinking person knows the truth about Santa.

apparently you don't know much of definitions (PLURAL) of person... persons are nOT always considered human beings... One of the definitions you will find in the dictionary of a person is «a self conscious rational being»... that is not exclusive to human beings

A supposedly rational person would know this already.

As far as we know the rational opening to the truth about all being appears only in persons experiencing the joy of knowing with each other.

It's only recent that their bigotry is no longer accepted by rational people (and for the sake of this argument that includes moderate christians).

Do you think a rational, intelligent person can know that the God of Israel is real?

i remember saying as much way back when we were stil top and playing well, a certain person on here, by the name of THE ANALYZER took my head off and said I should take my «negativity» elsewhere, until that day I never knew been rational, frank and realistic equates to been «negative»....

Regular people can't be expected to know enough about the details of say TTIP to make any kind of rational judgment anyway.

What we do know is that it includes people who no rational person would consider an extremist.

It apparently didn't have the effect we wanted it to have, but it was a little known part of the effort that people who worked at Los Alamos put into trying to get a rational decisions made about where we go from here.

Even though people's rational, conscious mind «knows» that they are unhealthy, some other part of the brain seems to disagree.

That's the way most people have been taught and all they know about anything sexual — a tingling in the groins that if you allow yourself to feel (and enjoy) you'll lose your rational mind and when you die, you'll go to hell and burn in a big fire.

«We've been so successful because we only deal with people we know are level - headed, rational, and ready for a relationship,» Feargal said.

They very crafty and know the power of emotional strength people put into online relationship — unfortunately the rational part of the users brain is somehow overruled by the need to be loved, and this is where vulnerability takes place.

I'm known to be a warm, caring, friendly, family oriented and rational person.

And no matter how good of a friend and person I am I am unable to make better decisions without the love and consideration from an objective and rational, hence healthy individuals consideration for my best interest.

Hope to meet someone special here... Lets see what happens... Looking for honest, respectful, kind hearted person... Someone who knows how to be fair, reasonable and rational... They want me to keep writing more here....

The rational solution is to get to know these performers as people and no longer be afraid of them, then in time, come to accept them.

There is no rational reason for this system to be revived and there are oligarchs, and people at Goldman Sachs, and people in the US government and military that know this.

So I don't know, I kind of see the kobo people as the good guys, because of their partnership with the independent bookstore, rational price... I don't like the super aggressive attitude of amazon, but again Amazon gives you the feeling that if you don't find it in Amazon, you can not find it anywhere else, which is probably true, and that is a good feeling and add to that their books are the cheapest.

I know economists like thinking that people are rational actors and efficiency maximisers, but we aren't.

When a new person would come into some position of power that we had never dealt with before, we would ask others who knew him better, «Is he economically rational?»

It's a fascinating field that shows that people aren't perfectly rational with money, so we often spend money when we know we should save it.

Behavioral economists have known for a long time that people are not completely rational beings and that behavior plays out in the financial markets, where we see evidence of herding behavior, speculation and mania.

The example was used to show how irrational some clients can be; even when your returns are in the top 1 % of all investment managers out there, some people can still find something to complain about (as an aside, that is why the truly successful mutual fund managers quickly exit the public domain once they have made «enough», and then they tend to go super private by either managing their own money or investing privately on behalf of some particular clients that they know to be rational — when you're worth tens and tens of millions of dollars, you don't need to deal with people that don't truly believe that good value investing often means underperforming the S&P 500 at least one out of every three years).

Larry Swedroe is the author of Wise Investing Made Simple (2007), The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You'll Ever Need (2005), What Wall Street Doesn't Want You to Know (2000), Rational Investing in Irrational Times — How to Avoid the Costly Mistakes Even Smart People Make Today (2002), and The Successful Investor Today: 14 Simple Truths You Must Know When You Invest (2003), and co-author of The Only Guide to a Winning Bond Strategy You'll Ever Need (2006)(All Affiliate Links).

American politics can no longer necessarily be thought of as the community of speaking and rational peoples.