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You can minimize your sin. Rationalize your sin. Justify your sin. -- Johnny Hunt
Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are. -- Douglas Coupland
The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq. -- Robert Fisk
I love making movies, but I was ready to rationalize being only a mother if my career never got back on track. -- Jane Greer
Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human. -- Cesar Millan
When I carve out time to game, it's because I rationalize that I 'deserve it,' so I relish every minute of that 2-3 hour session. -- Felicia Day
It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point. -- Henry Rollins
You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've to take the downside. -- Julius Erving
If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives. -- Charles Stanley
All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion. -- Victor Ponta
Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse. -- John Conyers
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
Name your nation-state, or tribe or party - you have to rationalize what you're doing. You have to go to sleep at night. Does Dick Cheney sleep at night? Does he sleep like a baby? -- Martin Donovan
The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too. -- Stephen Covey
I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive. -- Peter Weir
Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but it's basically just nosiness. It also helps me gauge where I'm at: Am I normal? -- Mindy Kaling
You have to trust yourself, not research. Not testing. Testing helps, but you have to trust your own taste. If your taste says something isn't any good, don't let research rationalize that out of its own truth. -- Brian Grazer
What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're creative, you find more ways to cheat and still yourself a story about why this is okay. -- Dan Ariely
Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse. -- Julius Erving
I'm not a big gore hound but monster gore is different to me than killing a teenager in any way that you can when another human-like person does it. I don't know how I rationalize that really but it seems different to me. -- Rick Baker
When we can communicate from the inside out, we're talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then we allow people to rationalize it with the tangible things we say and do. This is where gut decisions come from. -- Simon Sinek
When I was twelve or thirteen, if you liked something that was outside of your friend group genre, you had to rationalize and explain it in some way. It's totally irrelevant, I think, now. I don't think anybody cares. Not young people, at least. Maybe journalists. -- Autre Ne Veut
You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things. -- Bryan Fuller
Prioritization sounds like such a simple thing, but true prioritization starts with a very difficult question to answer, especially at a company with a portfolio approach: If you could only do one thing, what would it be? And you can't rationalize the answer, and you can't attach the one thing to some other things. It's just the one thing. -- Jeff Weiner
It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice. -- Eric Hoffer
The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering. -- Maile Meloy
Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something -- Harlan Coben
It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational. -- Warren Buffett
An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try. -- Jen Knox
I rationalize shop. I buy a dress because I need change for gum. -- Rita Rudner
And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves? -- Orson Scott Card
The creature comforts we tend to rationalize as "business expenses I can write off." -- Dave Ramsey
The mind's ability to rationalize it's own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes. -- Robert A. Heinlein
We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others. -- Simon Sinek
However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money. -- Raymond Chandler
...we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving God. -- Francis Chan
Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it. -- Walter Darby Bannard
Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat. -- Cleveland Amory
You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right. -- David Gemmell
part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations. -- Robert Anton Wilson
I think in a world where everyone wants to categorize and compartmentalize and rationalize, it's OK to be different. -- Miguel
At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down. -- Lauren Oliver
Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it. -- James Cook
The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality. -- Thomas Sowell
Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness. -- Frederick Lenz
The way that I rationalize making photographs is because you're countering what's offensively mass-produced with something that you just want more people to see. -- Mary Mattingly
You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?" "It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize." "Must be a human thing." "Exactly. -- Christopher Moore
As long as we rationalize nuclear weapons as "necessary" in order to save American lives, then nuclear weapons will never be gotten rid of. -- Bernard Lown
They'll kill you in a minute rather than deal with truth. It's more convenient because then they can forget about it and rationalize your death. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize it out of existence. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I can't rationalize the brilliance and knowledge that you have about the intricacies of the market with the crazy bullshit I see you do each night. -- Jon Stewart
Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have the power to rationalize? -- Mark Twain
We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very little effort to feel victimized. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The attempt to justify and rationalize the death of a whole nation, including women, children, the old and infirm, must itself be considered a crime against humanity. -- Taner Akçam
When you're tired, you rationalize. You make excuses in your mind. You say, "I'm too tired; I'm bushed; I can't do this; I'll loaf." Then you're a coward. -- Vince Lombardi
An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it. -- Fernando Botero
The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your brand image is primarily an emotional construct. Emotion is probably always more powerful in swaying people than reason, but people like to be able to rationalize their choices. -- Drayton Bird
There is no horror, no amount of evil in the world, that a true believer can't rationalize as consistent with a loving God. It's the ultimate way of fooling yourself. -- Jerry A. Coyne
As long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions between sexes, races, or classes, there will be forms of science whose main function is to rationalize and legitimize these distinctions -- Elizabeth Fee
Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling. -- Joe Wright
I'm pretty cerebral, so I can occasionally rationalize emotional pain away, but when I can't, that's when I start to feel the fire inside take over and somehow manage to power through. -- Nathan Parsons
I sit in my loft with the haves and look out at the have-nots - the bottom of the bottom - and I have to rationalize it, ... Am I pushing out the homeless? -- Thomas Reid
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I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers man. I'll defend men today who are involved in it. -- Don King
People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy. -- Democritus
At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this, I just felt it intuitively and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted. -- Wynn Bullock

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