Are they responsive to that kind of rational thinking that has guided U.S. policy for 50 years?

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The pause led to more rational thinking about the trading day and often helped cooler heads prevail during times of stress.

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If not, we are now in the world of conflict that is critical to balancing our intuition and rational thinking.

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That lesson is that once a leader is ideologically committed to a policy of appeasement, he is unable to allow rational considerations to permeate his thinking.

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In fact, I fail to see why any rational investor or company would fool themselves into thinking this time is going to be different.

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"To me, many of these projects are a result of easy access to capital and a combination of wishful thinking and speculative behavior rather than rational business calculations, " said Victor Teo, assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong.

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These inaccurate thoughts are usually used to reinforce negative thinking or emotions telling ourselves things that sound rational and accurate, but really only serve to keep us feeling bad about ourselves.

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What benefits our thinking on this planet earth, once we are self aware is what is more rational and consistent, this is how we try to fashion level playing field for our future generations.

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Management and marketing skills are not transferable, the thinking goes, since the federal customer is a political animal that seldom behaves like an economic rational actor.

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