“ However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money. ”
- Raymond Chandler- Copy
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“ Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. ”
- Salvador Dali- Copy
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“ The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. ”
- Leon Trotsky- Copy
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“ He who created you without you will not justify you without you. ”
- St. Augustine of Hippo- Copy
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“ I won't apologize, Lisa. I'm sorry, but that's just the way that I am. ”
- Homer- Copy
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“ It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition. ”
- Northrop Frye- Copy
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“ Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular — not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately… ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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“ There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away. ”
- Norman Mailer- Copy
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