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• If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when YOU'RE not the victim, it becomes pretty easy to rationalize and excuse cruelty, injustice, inequality, slavery, and even murder. But when you're the victim, things look a lot differently from that angle.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Views, Looks, Slavery

  Speech to the students of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Summer 2010.

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• 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

  Dog, Animal, Inner Beauty

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• Feelings of bitterness and dissatisfaction feed upon themselves and give place to thoughts and acts of unkindness, criticism, and eventually even hatred. Criticism is often motivated by a desire to rationalize one's own shortcomings and to justify termination of sacred marriage covenants.

  Richard G. Scott

  Giving, Hatred, Feelings

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• Fate is a misplaced retreat. Many people rationalize an unexplained event as fate and shrug their shoulders when it occurs. But that is not what fate is. The world operates as a series of circles that are invisible, for they extend to the upper air. Fate is where these circles cut to earth. Since we cannot see them, do not know their content, and have no sense of their width, it is impossible to predict when these cuts will slice into our reality. When this happens, we call it fate. Fate is not a chance event but one that is inevitable, we are simply blind to its nature and time.

  James Levine

  Cutting, Fate, Reality

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• 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

  Christian Inspirational, Want, Faces

  Charles Stanley (2002). “How to Listen to God”, p.57, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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

  Photography, Mean, Creative

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• I rationalize shop. I buy a dress because I need change for gum.

  Rita Rudner

  Dresses, Needs, Gum

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• The contempt which men feel for the prostitute, and the fact that they have always regarded themselves as far superior to her, even when they made use of her, suggests an attempt to rationalize the situation; it might be explained as an unconscious transference to the woman of the shame they feel for themselves in these relations.

  Alison Roberta Noble Neilans

  Men, Use, Might

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• I rationalize out, well, how much help could you really be, you know? And maybe if people saw this, they'd realize the brutality of war and figure out there's got to be some better way than killing human beings who are just trying to farm a field.

  Haskell Wexler

  War, People, Trying

  "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• I began to rationalize marrying Will [William Houston Price]. 'He comes from a good family. A girl could do worse.' (As it turned out, I couldn't, but I didn't know that yet.)

  Maureen O'Hara

  Girl, Houston, Good Family

  "'Tis Herself: An Autobiography". Book by Maureen O'Hara and‎ John Nicoletti, 2004.

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• By and large, the world wants to move away from the nuclear era. The question is how fast and how far. In a world of sovereign nation-states, I can't rationalize any number above zero. If it's more than zero, you have to acknowledge every nation has the right to have them.

  George Lee Butler

  Zero, Moving, Numbers

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.

  James Cook

  Thinking, Government, People

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• The attachment to a rationalistic, teleological notion of progress indicates the absence of true progress; he whose life does not unfold satisfyingly under its own momentum is driven to moralize it, to set up goals and rationalize their achievement as progress.

  John Carroll

  Attachment, Goal, Achievement

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