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In a rational market, the bonds backed by pools of weaker loans would have been priced lower than the bonds backed by stronger loans.

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I hope that as we move forward, a sensible, calm and rational public conversation can take place about the next chapter of the BBC.

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One day my wife asked, in a very calm and rational voice, if we could maybe have fewer books about Nazis on our bedside table.

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The home game, then, is essentially the opposite of any rational understanding of poker—the aim of which is to win the most money.

These rational and reflective capacities are precisely what the classical tradition describes as the “soul.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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