I'm rational.

Instead, Santos opted for the path of least expedience.

My friend, the intellectual Kian Tajbakhsh, is in jail in Iran for, well, being an intellectual.

He is a great thinker, whose advice is always disastrous to follow.

1769) 1862 Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher (b.

Slowing the rate of alteration is the only rational course of action, given the potential outcomes.

But this number is still almost unimaginable and beyond any rational level needed for deterrence.

And it's too cerebral to animate guts and hearts and behavior when the going gets rough.

In fact, the great nineteenth century British political thinker John Stuart Mill advocated liberal government without multi party rule.

This opinion was expressed most clearly in a recent article by the conservative foreign policy thinker Robert Kagan.

The basic elements of a recovery package include, first and foremost, a rational approach to rebooting the financial system.

It is this rare combination of morality and perseverance that is his legacy as a foreign policy thinker and practitioner.

So they have handed it over to technocrats, in the hope that they make rational choices that benefit everyone.

In 1863, the Russian democratic émigré thinker Alexander Herzen, commenting on the brutal crushing of the Polish uprising by the Tsarist army, wrote in his publication

That augurs well for a more rational and constructive Sino American dialogue on global imbalances, which would certainly benefit the global economy.

In particular, the French Catholic thinker Jacques Maritain developed arguments as to why Christians should embrace democracy and human rights.

Of all this we can say what the political thinker Hannah Arendt said of the anti Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Meanwhile, the Bank s extreme risk averse culture reflects a rational response to critics who make a huge fuss about every project or program failure.

CA But is there a rational fear that actually, the reason we're frightened about this is because we think that the Big One is to come?

It was always meant to be a play about the era, about fame...what these people stood for, the fact that this was different from what they are.

A sustainable answer to questions of such vital importance to the Middle East only makes sense if it is regional in character.

Souleymane Bachir Diagne, a Senegalese philosopher and professor at Columbia University, believes that African philosophers must make their work more accessible to their compatriots.

And I said, well, by whom? I mean most, you know there s three attitudes You re right, and I don t know why, which is the most rational one at this point.

SINGAPORE Not a week passes, it seems, without a big picture thinker releasing a big picture book or giving a big picture sermon describing the gradual eclipse of American hegemony in Asia.

Few people have understood this better than the Polish democratic activist and thinker Adam Michnik, one of the heroes who in the 1980 s helped to end the Communist dictatorship in his country.

The adjectives which best describe the traits of each blood type are as follow Type A is considerate but shy, B is creative but whimsical, O is sociable but unorganized and AB is rational but calculating.

In 1863, the Russian democratic émigré thinker Alexander Herzen, commenting on the brutal crushing of the Polish uprising by the Tsarist army, wrote in his publicationKolokol that acceptance of violence on the streets of Warsaw meant the acceptance of violence on the streets of St. Petersburg.

In the aftermath of Israel's 1967 victory, Sadeq Jalal Al Azm, a well know Syrian intellectual and a professor of philosophy, published a book entitled Self criticism after the defeat,'' which sharply criticised many aspects of Arab political culture.

As I argued in my 2007 book Cool It, the most rational response to global warming is to make alternative energy technologies so cheap that the whole world can afford them.