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1. Both Ava and Tahlmute were tainted, he had to rationalize around that didn't he?
2. ” Why couldn’t he admit to Ava that she had refused his help? Would it just sound like he was trying to rationalize his failure to prevent this?
3. It was a little harder to rationalize his actions when Luray wasn't there in front of him
4. ” One should rationalize that if suffering could be propagated, then by the same token, happiness too could be cultivated
5. Why had he stopped at that particular farm on his journey? Never much a believer in fate, he certainly couldn’t rationalize that move
6. rationalize it by calling it a loan to myself, and that I’d repay it right away with my new riches that were sure to come my way shortly
7. A Conscience‘s immune system, however, continues to inform itself in proportion to its inestimable failings, that, despite efforts to disclaim or otherwise rationalize an individual‘s failings, will not concede a moment‘s reprieve
8. Nevertheless, I had to rationalize what happened to me—the ideas, strange coincidences like the choking incident, some others that I have not mentioned—with my long-held atheism
9. There is no need to rationalize abortion as the reason for the trend of reduced crimes against the person, as Freakonomist Levitt had done
10. Moreover, such misunderstanding of cause and effect should not be used to rationalize one's own smugness, laziness, or apathy
11. My eyes were absorbing all this, but my brain was shut in disbelief, trying to rationalize what I was watching
12. Failed to rationalize the ineffective committee system;
13. Self-loathing has been a fantastic way to rationalize doing really
14. he rationalize that? Because even if he managed to ignore the
15. could, and probably would be used to rationalize and carry out all sorts of troubling exploits
16. how else would the crew rationalize our gathering all of this
17. that they are the best at anything, sometimes they rationalize to themselves that being less
18. Rosa and Eileen rationalize William’s infidelity
19. rationalize the pursuit of personal objectives is the kind of hypocrisy that this approach often
20. rationalize it carefully because there won’t be any until the end of the next week
21. It is difficult for us to understand and rationalize that every road may represent positivity and negativity: life is worth to be lived just like it is, as a part of the Great Game, fully accepting its rules, without trying to live its course in a proactive way
22. Pisces have intellect, but to them intellect is only a means by which they can rationalize what they know intuitively
23. That information is used to rationalize
24. On board, Harry Travis tried hard to rationalize the circumstances
25. When a strong and moving religion threatens to dominate him, he invariably tries to rationalize, traditionalize, and institutionalize it, thereby hoping to gain control of it
26. that could neither rationalize nor think
27. He felt her rationalize that it must have just been her imagination
28. sources to justify their need to rationalize that the disciples did indeed travel outside Israel
29. rationalize that all those saved individuals entering the millennial reign of Christ, and
30. They will rationalize that
31. Naturally, you have to rationalize what’s happening;
32. It’s difficult to rationalize that connection when these things happen in the middle of the day
33. Shocked by the use of such force in his statement, Feltus observed the adamant speaker for any signs that would rationalize such a response, but finding none other than the apparent reflections upon some incident long ago, he said, “Your convictions as to his guilt are as strong as your convictions in your faith
34. the moral and spiritual aspect of ‘killing’ someone – that’s a given, and you either rationalize it
35. couldn’t rationalize it—unless they were genuinely sincere in their
36. But even as the suspicions mounted, he couldn’t rationalize how
37. rationalize it – because, it was right! As for going into combat, that never produced anxiety in
38. People’s actions were hard to rationalize sometimes,
39. was trying to rationalize the situation, an inconclusive exercise that
40. Now aged 35, he was also able to rationalize and process that the event was not so bad after all
41. I tried for two years as Chief of Staff of the Air Force, from 1945 to 1947, to rationalize the development and acquisition of new planes, but without much success
42. We must also rationalize the whole process by which we choose and develop our planes
43. To do that, however, we need to rationalize and unify our future aircraft programs and to stop going forward blindly, one little step at a time
44. Optimistically realizing that the damage and the casualties could have been much more significant was the only way he could ever rationalize such disasters in his mind, even if they were not on a personal level
45. Wickland bit the corner of his lip as he nodded in agreement compassionately, even though he was slightly anxious to determine as much as he could at this point before he was forced to consult Spalding’s widow who would undoubtedly be filled with questions trying to rationalize her husband’s death
46. That folks was a gob of torment that I’d inflicted on her that I can’t even begin to try and rationalize or explain
47. Immediately, both thought of Stratavynski but could not rationalize the reason for wanting the land unless it was merely a bargaining chip for something else he hoped to achieve or obtain
48. Even if I could at the time rationalize Superman's behavior, perhaps he was upset about the amount of illegal immigration; it seemed a very inefficient way to get rid of Mexicans
49. deny them and stifle them, rationalize them away
50. Don’t try to rationalize why you feel this strong
1. She had rationalized that her need was as great as Kaitlyn's, her spirit was as determined, her own memories of the idolized family were there longer
2. My mother didn’t have time to be angry with my father and rationalized that I was still her daughter
3. Waddell rationalized that he had already performed his mission to destroy the Yankee whaling
4. rationalized that the dragons were communicating with
5. Moore’s movies dealt with real people, but he rationalized his misrepresentations by saying we lived in a fictitious world
6. The victims are viewed in terms of their karmic outcomes and their fate is rationalized
7. rationalized away as follows;-
8. rationalized away as follows:-
9. They rationalized that Catholics in Northern Germany must have a more solemn concept of devotion and religious respect than in other parts of the world
10. If God could be dissected and rationalized by the human mind, even those with a superior intellect like yourself, then He wouldn’t be God
11. She rationalized that this was
12. rationalized, it was beginning to seem like the roles we’d been
13. even in the case that I didn’t survive; because, I rationalized, this
14. having been rationalized and re-rationalized thousands of times
15. rationalized the older man was a sentimental favorite who won more on longevity and
16. Perhaps all this would all work out to his favor, he rationalized
17. I rationalized that this was the home stretch and that the sooner I got it over
18. I rationalized the Halloween Nightmare, along with all the days that did or didn’t follow, as the overactive imagination of a child
19. behavior is often rationalized by the term "sacrifice"
20. their application actually occurs – this desire to plan ahead is often rationalized as good
21. Was he displaying the same single-mindedness and toughness that characterized his noted forebears or was he a self-serving shadow of these time magnified ancestors? What would his namesake, great Granddad Can Martin say? What‘s the difference the sweating rancher rationalized, no one would know what he did tonight much less his illustrious ancestors
22. Only one thought was at the forefront of his mind as he rationalized sleeping over for the whole night: his parents would be waiting for him to arrive home
23. Opposites attract she rationalized
24. Avi wondered if she was deluding herself, but rationalized that trying to stop her mother once she set her mind on something was next to impossible
25. Faye Anne was the first to notice and rationalized that this arrangement could not have been an accident, and it must have been for their own good
26. Saul felt bad about the discomfort he was causing these people, but he rationalized that it was much less than it would have been if they had merely blasted their way in the way his grandfather had originally planned
27. ” More than once he had thought about going to an AA meeting, but he always rationalized that he could still manage his drinking while still keeping his marriage intact, his job steady, his finances solvent, and the rest of his life on an even keel
28. I studied the racing form, and I rationalized that the owners of Secretariat don’t want to win the race because they have the Triple Crown races coming up soon
29. Some even rationalized, that’s business
30. I rationalized my inaction by the
31. For you," he rationalized
32. off the question in the silence of my mind, but then I rationalized
33. Man has built an empire unto himself throughout the last seventeen centuries, and institutionalized, rationalized, justified, and flaunted on most any and every street corner, in any and every town or city
34. He rationalized that excuse away, too
35. He rationalized the whole strange experience as being due to a lack
36. However these premises could nowadays be analyzed and rationalized for us to make some sense by modern techniques that have outdated an existing trend of a primitive style of àcause and effectànd are now being swiveled upon psychological bench and projected out for us to discover what had not been known before to us
37. However these premises could nowadays be analyzed and rationalized for us to make some sense by modern techniques that have outdated an existing trend of a primitive style of a `cause and effect` and are now being swiveled upon psychological bench and projected out for us to discover what had not been known before to us
38. ‘I strongly disapprove of the Sena’s brand of politics, but I want to see Modi as our prime minister,’ he rationalized
39. Having rationalized her proclivity thus, visualizing the ecstasies of their passionate orgies, she got excited
40. I rationalized having the
41. “A man is unconscious covered up and rationalized by a more mature thoughts”
42. we started feeling bad again, although we rationalized that our sickness was the
43. He rationalized that if he drinks for one day it will do him no harm
44. was different he rationalized, these friends were
45. "I'm not sure how you rationalized that, but what
46. They always want more and every means to get it becomes legitimate and can be rationalized ad infinitum
47. he rationalized, would be no different
48. He rationalized that his will to succeed was greater than his mind’s need for rest
49. Then, the sweet aroma of the roast pork teased his nostrils, and he rationalized that he needed to become strong
50. in rationalized terms, and against which we evaluate our options
1. Brink rationalizes it is better to be fat in order for his head to be proportionally sized
2. We add this method because it rationalizes the use of P/E analysis and it
3. If asked to relate directly to his emotions, the narcissist intellectualizes, rationalizes, speaks about himself in the third person and in a detached "scientific" tone or composes a narrative with a fictitious character in it, suspiciously autobiographical
4. It is the way man rationalizes the unknown and justifies injustice
5. It’s interesting to watch how he rationalizes his actions as happening of his own choosing and his memory lapse as one of those times when the conscious mind goes on autopilot and the subconscious takes over
6. Which rationalizes our own fears and justifies us in hating the Universe we live-in
1. "I think you're rationalizing," she said
2. Adjectives, conjunctions, and prepositions: some sort Of bionomic central force in the monkey seemed to Express itself through the de-centered processes of Rolling grammatical progression and spreading activation That converged around the impulses flowing between The brain-machine interface, with the monkey’s intentions Refined by the computers rationalizing
3. The dogs ‘metabolism functions by absorbing nutrients as fast as it can into the body and then spending the fasting times, when there is nothing in the gut, utilizing and rationalizing all these nutrients and clearing toxins from the system
4. That is not what Jesus wants, and it is the result of rationalizing
5. My brain would’ve tried rationalizing the situation
6. by rationalizing that the crew, who would pose much more of a
7. internal persecutory I, the idealizing I and the rationalizing I, with all their
8. mystifying bla bla bla of the rationalizing I
9. rationalizing by selective focusing
10. father, who seemed tired of rationalizing to his son, just said plainly
11. She was stealing stuff, she said, rationalizing that the client was too old, didn’t care and wouldn’t have any more use for the stuff
12. With a whispered, ―oh shit,‖ he let go the leash, rationalizing that the dog was the lesser of two evils
13. amount of cognitive rationalizing could shift
14. Conflicted was the name of the game and I tried rationalizing that I would never see Elizabeth again
15. excusing so much of the misinformation and rationalizing it, it wasn’t
16. rationalizing a probability that is already heavily in the market’s favor
17. rationalizing having hurt, mistreated or stolen from another
18. Yet this amazing organ is capable of so much more: reason, understanding, drawing logical conclusions, cognition, belief, rationalizing, formation of ideas, translation of the spoken word, creative thought, sending and receiving signals
19. Where Mercury conjunction natives tend to sleepwalk through life, focusing all their attention on those areas in which they have some degree of superiority or control and ignoring everything else, the elongation natives tend to overuse mind – they are utterly taken by their own cleverness and perspicacity, and refuse to act on the pure promptings of their hearts without first thoroughly rationalizing them
20. T’Pau waited three minutes, as if expecting Tammas to start rationalizing what he
21. That is, animal nature tries to preserve its power over the human by rationalizing the phenomenon or criticizing it, when all that is necessary is simple childish faith
22. While the false proposition might help massage the long nursed Hindu hurt by rationalizing their defeatist past, the minorities grab it as a tactical stick to beat Hindutva with that is regardless of its endorsement by the highest judiciary of the land
23. answers, telling stories, rationalizing, blaming and erecting all of the Ego defenses
24. We kept rationalizing and trying to laugh about it, but we both felt stupid and guilty
25. from rationalizing the matter, or inventing justifications
26. The Jews perpetuated their culture for thousands of years… by rationalizing themselves as the ‘chosen ones’: doomed to suffer their ‘gods wrath’ … as outcasts, and wanderers in the desert
27. Now Jews are still justifying and rationalizing their culture as both a victim culture… and also being the elite chosen ones… a culture superior to all other cultures
28. The universal effect of greed on a human soul, what it does to people: how it cuts them off from other people so they are unable to share anything of themselves with others, how it insulates them from the suffering of others, how it insulates them from any awareness of their own spiritual corruption, so that they are capable of rationalizing their own actions as being moral-just-right-good, how the culture of greed is evidenced in justifying the oppression of all those below you, how being trained all their lives in taking, people never learn how to give, how this invisible, intangible, secret rotting and shrinkage of the human soul begins from birth, slowly destroying all innocence and wonder
29. His insane statement worshipping reason without any passion or any emotion or any feelings… as an elite form of awareness which only elite rulers are supposed to be capable of: was, and still is: pure self-serving, rationalizing bullshit
30. These are Thinking, Sorting and Interpreting, Rationalizing, Understanding and Acting
31. We only fool ourselves by rationalizing that this is our godhead, our supreme uniqueness that makes us superior to all other living creatures
32. It follows a single linear path of tool-logic without ever deviating from it over and over… repeating itself, endlessly the same, duplicating itself, justifying itself, rationalizing itself… just as tools trained our ancestors to perform the same, identical motions of chipping away at a rock, they have trained our brains to perform numerous identical logic sequences over, and over: without ever deviating into any other possible way of thinking, or considering any other alternative paths of logic
33. Jewish humor is based upon rationalizing and excusing the worst evils on earth
34. I tried to cheer up by rationalizing that Corina would not have asked me to go if the situation was hopeless
35. The difference between wanting to find out the actual truth no matter how painful… and wanting only to find a way of rationalizing one's own inbred prejudices and beliefs, is totally dependent upon one's own level of love-courage-honesty and pure wonder
36. They were the ones who could easily commit crimes and atrocities by rationalizing all of it secretly… in their twisted sick minds… convincing themselves that they had a mission from god himself and that whatever they did to make themselves powerful and rich was a sign from God himself that they were on the right track!
37. People are only interested in rationalizing and justifying their own actions; regardless of the actual truth
38. do not compromise your values with weak, sick, sly, hypocritical, mediocre, lying sneaky backstabbing rationalizing evil people who will all try to deflect your truth and lead you AWAY from your original intention of healing yourself by helping others, and giving instead of taking
39. Why see the squire as a fat stupid greedy pig? Why see Livesy as the cold inhuman new wave of ‘scientific’ detached human filth selling more sick ways for humans to die from as a ‘doctor’… by draining the blood of a sick person so they die from lack of blood? The Olde pirate died because he tried to stand up after being bled almost empty of blood… all his blood went into his feet and legs… his heart went empty of blood because Livesy the new cunning evil that has managed to hide evil as live!! Is selling people new poisons that actually kill them faster; than if they never had taken them: the new evil… Modern Medicine: the up and coming new drug Age of legalized drugs… legal drugs are good for you! Illegal drugs are bad for you! Legal greed is good for you! Illegal greed is bad for you! The new-age robber the new rationalizing evil so cold blooded and so stupid: Livesy cannot recognize a 40-year old one-legged pirate with only one eye when he sees one
40. "Understanding is the inward motion of a net; rationalizing the world and slicing it with Ockham's razor
41. God almighty, what was wrong with her? All that insane rationalizing
42. She replayed her conversations with Richie over and over again, and when she stopped rationalizing, she knew that Richie was right and that she had blown it
43. This way you will not fall into the trap of rationalizing the answers of your source with your assumptions
44. As long as you are susceptible to the kinds of errors that are the result of rationalizing, justifying, hesitating, hoping, and jumping the gun, you will not be able to trust yourself