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Irrational? Not if there was also a voice being beamed into his head from that little flying toy, saying, "Give up, give up! "

"It was clear to me that there was an irrational equation of candy and danger in that house, " Dr.

"Some people may have an irrational hope that the higher the growth, the better, " he said at a Saturday news conference.

However, it would be wrong to think that this made Chinese governance arbitrary, irrational, or despotic.

He said the hydro-electric project has caused conflicts over land shortages and environmental degradation caused by irrational development.

She spotted it draped over the filing cabinet and felt an irrational sense of relief as she snatched it up and retreated behind her desk.

Refusing to go with an irrational flow hurts performance for a while, and could prove durably stupid if the terrible event actually happens.

Yesterday they showed to what point they are capable of going in their stupid and irrational violence, " he said. "

Analysing an irrational market is extremely difficult, as those who tried to call the top of the dotcom boom discovered in the late 1990s.

Worshipping deities would seem to be an irrational and wasteful habit, yet it has been found in all cultures.

The more we try to explain those events in history rationally, the more irrational and incomprehensible they seem to us.

It is often this irrational behavior to make rational explanation.

One of Voldemort's aims seems to be to preserve wizard kind, a goal that is not in itself necessarily unethical or irrational.

If you are worried about this. . . put it out of your mind, it is irrational.

All that sounded extravagant or irrational in the progress of the reconciliation might have no origin but in the language of the relators.

As always, faith is something of an irrational leap in the dark, a gift of God.

My sister later told me that during her pregnancy she had had an irrational fear that her baby was going to be born deformed.

It seems irrational to me, but he says it is all down to lobbying by the timber industry.

The endowment effect is an irrational preference to keep what you have rather than switch. Better the devil you know and all that.

Anyone who reacts to a price rise with irrational rage turns out to be a strong negotiator.

by now in literature to the equation of one sense with another, or to be told that human behaviour is frequently cruel and irrational.

There was always the irrational hope that he might be taken for a pure Spaniard.

Only if he believes that the Fundamental Question of Philosophy is itself irrational, is our answer.

In adults, confusion or irrational speech or behavior is often the most obvious sign, Dr. Kleinman says.

Every few days, senior Commerce Ministry officials have spoken out, warning that pressure to let the renminbi rise is "irrational. "

For example, if someone says "no" to an offer that you know is in her best interest, do not assume she is irrational.

These irrational beliefs took the form of 'automatic thoughts' which seemed to be accessible to conscious introspection.

So it would be irrational for Kim ever to launch a major attack -- the inevitable result would be the end of his regime.

Urban development contains rational element and a great measure of irrational or accidental element as well.

as a consequence , terror overwhelms the person to the point of making irrational choices and non - typical behavior.

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan warned of "irrational exuberance, " but that did not deflate the dot-com stock market bubble.

Many regulators believe that the sector's short history and a lack of other investment options has led to irrational exuberance.

And what many find amazing is these agents are making as much or more in commissions as they were during the irrational housing boom.

The same irrational quirk is now playing out in the U. S. housing market.

'There is an irrational unwillingness among the banks to lend, ' he said.

eg: Irrational underselling will touch off nothing but a fresh round of price war.

Since it does not seem irrational to refuse to hook oneself up to this machine, hedonism seems inadequate.

You think this is going to be a book about irrational health fears, but its subject turns out to be far less easily diagnosed than that.

Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were the ones which most frequently grew into deeds.

A new war would risk Azerbaijan's petro-wealth, but irrational behaviour is all too common in the Caucasus.

It's also an irrational number, with an infinite number of decimal places and can't be written as a ratio of two whole numbers.

First, I eliminated a irrational source of negativity in my life. Something that would put negative emotions inside me for no reason at all.

Economists often refer to this sort of behaviour as irrational.

The golden ratio, also known as the divine proportion, is an irrational mathematical constant with a value of approximately 1. 618033987.

Remember the old Wall Street saying: 'The market can remain irrational longer than I can remain solvent.

Just as the Irish suffered a bad bout of irrational exuberance in the boom years, they have now been overcome by excessive pessimism.

The first came before he made his 1996 speech referring to "irrational exuberance" .

restitution, ask forgiveness, learn from our error and move on . If it is false guilt, set it down as an unnecessary and irrational burden.

But it would never occur to anyone to call their method planless and irrational.

In her writing there, Dr. Kawash dives deep into the American relationship with candy, finding irrational and interesting ideas everywhere.

The entire past decade has been irrational, but my strong and sensible mom is telling me she is trying to be rational.

If that's right, then it seems as though there'd be something irrational and inappropriate about simply disregarding those facts.

The artists are talented people with a vision who are a bit temperamental or slightly irrational.

Robert Shiller, of Case-Shiller index and irrational exuberance fame, reckons a further 25% decline is not out of the question.

But with my irrational sense of urgency this weekend, I can't concentrate on anything but the road ahead, and can't be deterred.

Apple excels at marketing to our irrational side (hilarious video to drive home that point), and I guess the iPad was the path into mine.

However impatient investors, lenders, and borrowers may be, believing that the actual problems can be solved overnight is irrational.

As it was happening I was shocked by the clear income demarcation that seemed to separate rational behavior from irrational behavior.

The theory was a perfect fit for RAND, an organization that continually sought to impose objective reality on an irrational world.

The sea and heating pipelines to check whether critical, aging, the irrational line to be replaced during construction.

Around the region, easy credit and ample liquidity is fueling fears that real-estate prices may be rising to irrational levels.

Monsanto acts as though accurately labeling products would make them the victim of some irrational cultural bias.

Therefore, the irrational factors cultivating study of the Maritime talent has an important practical significance.

Christopher Hughes, an expert on the region at the University of Warwick, said the move was not completely irrational.

It is Dali who brought forth the word " surrealism " to various languages to mean an irrational, pornographic, crazy and modern art.

abstract: The irrational use of traditional Chinese medicine injection is an important factor to the safety of it'clinical application.

From a theoretical perspective it may be irrational to sell an investment for less than its true value.

For a long time, the tourism resources of the predatory exploitation and irrational use of resources led to the destruction of many.

His competitors could never get a handle on his consistent ability to exploit irrational market behavior throughout all types of markets.

Inseparable as two sides of a coin, those born in this sign can be dazzling and irresistible or inconstant and irrational.

Though there are several reasons, the unscientific and irrational distribution model of cooperation profit is one of the important factors.

But this does not in any way alter the fact that they are now, from a practical point of view, irrational.

Seeing that list on paper may help you see how irrational some of your fears really are.

another whiff is called humanism or irrational doctrine ideological tended.

But the irrational "drum model" of doctor structure tends to develop into the "funnel model" . 3.

The theory of speculative bubbles can be divided into two parts: rational speculative bubbles and irrational speculative bubbles.

It means that my irrational fears are often an indication that my relationship and my fellowship with the Lord is out of kilter.

This intuition is not arbitrary or irrational, but is based on years of painstaking practice and hands-on experience that build skills.

The word "bear" brings to mind an irrational, angry creature that lashes out at anything in its path.

Even so, Merrill Lynch says retail investors have still been flooding out of China this year. Hartnett says this may be irrational.

Triggering the hearty response was the disclosure the measure provides full coverage for irrational exuberance.

But he sees empathy -- and the irrational acts of spending that spring from it -- as a trait to be cherished.

Aristotle's theory on virtue insists on the rational nature of morality and opposes the Irrational tendency of some moraldoctrines.

Those links can easily break if any bidder has any reason to suspect that any other bidder is irrational.

Henry Bergson established his irrational philosophy , which put the emphasis on creation , intuition, irrationality and unconsciousness .

As an irrational and blind will, "will to live" can be recognized through sensuous contemplation.

This course will examine phenomena often viewed as irrational and superstitious to see how they can be understood in cultural terms.

Many opposed them on religious grounds, branding them Satanic; others saw them as deeply irrational and unbefitting of a modern military.

By deciding to sit in the front row, you can get over this irrational fear and build your self confidence.

the decision-making of family business is prone to be irrational, then, the closed and distorted human resource allocation comes forth.

But while more people are applying for drama academies, few are admitted, which is "irrational" , she said.

But Sandy Baum, a senior policy analyst at the College Board, says that cancelling all student debt would be arbitrary and irrational.

The unfair and irrational old international political and economic order has not been fundamentally changed.

"Irrational exuberance has become pervasive gloom, " John Mitchell said at the end of his presentation.

Conclusion The key for controlling the hospitalization cost is to reduce the irrational increase of the medicine fees, management fees . . .

The accolades bestowed upon Alan Greenspan ahead of his retirement on January 31st have a strong scent of irrational exuberance.

and the irrational energy demand is the external cause for system crisis, which worsens operating situation of the system.

I've read several threads discussing but it just seems like a completely irrational fear to me.

Government must show leadership and courage in standing up for science and rejecting an irrational public debate around it.

A persistent, abnormal, or irrational fear of a specific thing or situation that compels one to avoid the feared stimulus.

We are not dutiful children because our parents don't want to see their children doing things that are irrational or illegal .

As you can see, one person's perception of risk can easily be perceived as irrational thinking by another.

Abnormal climate and irrational human activities were the major reason of these changes.

Above the first floor was an irrational collection of towers, turrets and attics.

It is argued that the main reason of these problems is the irrational human economic activities.

"The risk of a period of irrational handset subsidies cannot be ruled out, " says Mr Ramachandran.

Tim Harford, a Financial Times columnist, is author of "The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World. "

Examples like the found of irrational number and non-geometry, are uncountable in the history.

A worry wart's fears are generally viewed by others as irrational or completely out of proportion to the actual situation.

To call yourself lonely when all you lack is one person in your life is irrational.

International regulators have been issuing warnings to chief executives about a return of irrational exuberance.

The goal of REBT is to help people change their irrational beliefs into rational beliefs.

Then what minority and property right would be safe from the assaults of an irrational majority?

And yet, Mr. Market not only remained irrational, he seemed to enjoy it.

The contradiction reflected in aggregate for macro economy is in effect resulted from irrational national economy structure.

You can count me among the irrational respondents: if you made me an offer like that, I would unhesitatingly trouser the $100 in cash.

As much as it is a "rogue nation" with an (arguably) unstable and irrational leadership, it isn't suicidal.

Resurrection is no more irrational than any datum received by faith from divine revelation.

Some of this baggage is irrational and outdated, but it weighs heavy on the psyche nevertheless.

To attach the blame for the team's woes to the two former galacticos is manifestly, in sporting terms, as unjust as it is irrational.

Most CEOs are mainly directed towards the short term: it would be irrational if they were not.

Love, you see, is only apparently irrational.

The third culture will favor the irrational if it brings options and possibilities, because new experiences trump rational proof.

When others appear irrational, negotiation geniuses do not write them off as crazy.

And that includes making them safer from the collateral damage of Alan Greenspan's irrational exuberance for risky financial technologies.

He is not irrational idiots, not like the negative and see through Mundane Life those.

With tangible policies coupled with the invisible hand, manufacturing assets of the violent and irrational price fluctuations.

Farmers external communication showed under the tragic sense of the irrational.

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

Despising these resources is irrational, while only these resources are not enough to rely on.

The book Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely has great information on this, and there's a study linked to on his website.

Secondly, energy structure is irrational, coal burning increased sulfur dioxide emissions, cause severe environmental pollution easily.

was the assumption that the masses were fundamentally irrational.

The digit number of the extension of this irrational number is random on certain basis.

irrational designs , disorderly arranged furniture , clashing colors and unclean floors are all called interior visual pollution.

When fighting against the irrational but overwhelming conservative conventions, women should be more courageous and perseverant.

As with love and sex, financial decisions made by individuals, corporations and governments are emotional and tend toward the irrational.

How inconsiderate, how indelicate, how irrational, how unfeeling had been her conduct!

Accusing the agencies of being driven by political factors, Mr Noyer said they had become "incomprehensible and irrational" .

Impulsive, irrational, and out of control: that's how children in general conduct themselves.

People are often irrational about decision issues in a whole variety of ways.

However, other analysts dismissed the jitters as irrational and blown out of proportion.

The irrational investors may be numerous but they will also be impoverished and inconsequential.

Through the power of clues, the irrational, the intermittent and the dispersion of history was found by Foucault.

But forecasters' concerns should be not whether human response is rational or irrational, only that it is observable and systematic.

The results show that the agents' irrational behavior may be beneficial to the principals in particular case.

Experimental economics has an important influence on the research of the impact of manager's irrational behavior on corporate investment.

The fact that the square roots of 2 and 3 are irrational means that they cannot be written as fractions.

In some places the boom was big enough and irrational enough to suppress price signals from lots of new supply.

In all my years as a mental health professional, however, I have never encountered anyone with an irrational fear of homosexuals.

A non-scientific method for such a problem would fall under the category of 'irrational'.

There are many other superstitions associated with Halloween. A superstition is an irrational idea, like believing that the.

If economic policy eliminates fear, only greed remains, and there is no mechanism to limit "irrational exuberance" .

You see, stock markets are largely driven the buying and selling decisions of millions of irrational minds.

The opportunity, then, is not to insist that your customers get more rational, but instead to embrace just how irrational they are.

abstract: Objective: To analyze the irrational drug use in the outpatient of our hospital and promote rational drug use in clinic.

But in the absence of such an event, gold's strength is not entirely irrational.

However, the old international political and economic order, which is unfair and irrational, has yet to be changed fundamentally.

Phobia: Extreme and irrational fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation.

This kind of irrational commercial value pursuit could only resulted in the neglect and lack of ethnic tourism culture pluralistic unity.

I'll tell you a little bit about irrational behavior. Not yours, of course.

A certain constant has been adopted as a standard to use in exponential functions. It is an irrational number .

Irrational economic structure, problems of economic development mode the main crux of the problem.

It is irrational to think the crisis of the modern medical science and the perplexity of the medical ethics.

Despite its massive price tag, investors are unconvinced by the bail-out strategy for three separate (and hardly irrational) reasons.

Allais was less concerned to show that our behaviour was irrational than to argue that the premises of rationality itself were irrational.

This might seem an irrational switch, but it is one that humans make as well.

If one does not understand the difference, then that person is disingenuous, irrational and illogical.

It was hardly irrational that these strong fundamentals were translated into sharply rising stock markets.

Changing beliefs is the real work of therapy and is achieved by the therapist disputing the client's irrational beliefs.

Fears last month over whether the spill could push BP into bankruptcy look like little more than irrational panic now.

Then again, who's to say that certain types of irrational thinking aren't exactly what the world needs?

Disunity would be irrational if EU members always saw their common interests as paramount.

But if love was truly irrational, then the old saying that opposites attract would be true.

But Fitzpatrick cautioned that "irrational exuberance, " coupled with soaring gas prices, could choke off demand and stifle recovery.

This infuriated the water engineers, who thought the public's response was fundamentally irrational, Haddad says.

There are those who bully, commit hate crimes, and denounce the entire LGBT community for a variety of (irrational) reasons.

These factious groups are more violent than their predecessors and their fanaticism is even more irrational.

Irrational industrial structure and the main industry lags behind, restricted the overall development of the economy in hulunbeir city.

Many countries have no national policies on use of antibiotics, leading to irrational and unnecessary use of antibiotics.

The analysis and studies of investment pattern of choice in economics belong to the theory of rational-or-irrational choice.

However, the statement that settling litigations by only hearing words by one side is actually irrational and has aroused many doubts.

The primary causes of the above phenomenons were irrational activity in petroleum production and humanity's act of sabotage.

When this rotating speed ratio is an irrational number, the distribution of grinding track becomes finer.

That said, Second Life is certainly gripped by irrational exuberance, paralleling all those risk-blind investors in dubious derivatives.

A decade from now, we may look back at today's bond market as the irrational exuberance of this era.

At the same time, irrational market competition, and is also able to produce shoddy products hotbeds .

Skyscrapers, then, are the physical embodiment of "irrational exuberance" in the markets.

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

Shanghai Securities analyst Guo Yanling said using the H-share price as a psychological support for the A-shares is somewhat irrational.

The French Revolution was for him a savage release of irrational instincts.

The result showed that the main problems lied in low filling ratio, irrational media shape and incomplete adding ball system.

Studies of the irrational nature of much traditional life in China are very much the fashion in academic circles.

And "Irrational Exuberance's" Robert Shiller warns of a third meltdown coming.

Here are four examples of how consumers make purchasing decisions in highly irrational, sometimes completely nonsensical ways.

But modern consumerism was stimulating the appetite for instant gratification and irrational self-expression, Mr Bell worried.

To me, this seems quite a big wrinkle and explains why buying gold is not completely irrational.

People are more inclined to be emotionally unstable during the spring, which may lead to irrational behavior.

Such wild men haunted the forests of medieval and renaissance romance: irrational, carnivorous, dangerous, untamed .

These historical narratives of scientific behavior reveal the often irrational way scientists arrive at and assess their theories.

Driving in the massive amount of funds, the current high prices of listed companies has emerged with the irrational tendencies.

An unjust and irrational order hinders the global media industry's sustainable development and contributes to the problems in today's world.

But irrational reproaches were easier to bear than the sense of being instructed.

Result: Community doctors lack of awareness in bacterial drug resistance, irrational use of antibiotics is in serious condition.

All outmoded traditional thinking; any irrational system which obstructs social progress or human development.

So some of the fear surrounding the dollar is a little irrational.

Most domestic enterprises in drugs either on credit management problems mainly form extreme-style irrational management.

Science shows that donating money -- a financially irrational concept -- often stems from guilt, selfishness, pride or even lust.

Irrational exuberance played a part, but perhaps more important were the political forces distorting the markets.

Nostalgia is a kind of ancient, irrational wisdom, and the Internet, with its floods of information, threatens to drown it.

During this period I also wrote frequently cited articles on the allocation of time, crime and punishment, and irrational behavior.

Unfortunately, our irrational (and sometimes greedy) nature doesn't allow the maximum outcome to be reached.

First of all irrational product mix is reflected in clothing, decoration, three types of industrial fabrics products irrational structure.

Irrational suspicion or hatred of a particular group, race, or religion.

The market can be irrational for longer than you can remain solvent, as the saying goes.

A newly prominent field, behavioural economics, concentrates on the consequences of irrational actions.

Second, the place has fewer per household number of livestock and an irrational structure of livestock.

Human's pursuit for the proving criterion of cases has undergone a course from irrational to rational and from foolish to civilized.

At a certain point, people hit a threshold where irrational choices actually become rational.

The brinkmanship over raising the debt ceiling is a prime example for the argument that democracy is irrational, right?

Experts warned that irrational family planning would result in a shortage of social resources.

The Surrealists often do so in a double take turning irrational images themselves fetishistic.

Mr Cooper's most novel doctrine is that investors do not have to be irrational to generate bubbles.

Textile products for medical use irrational structure have become serious problems impeding its development.

Music could experience a similarly exuberant, irrational flowering of the amateur spirit.

The irrational social factor that expresses of network community is a main factor of influencing the irrational expression too.

That research concluded that dogs can actually distinguish between rational and irrational acts, just like human children.

Our job is not to argue with the crowd, telling it what's rational or irrational.

The frequency of the divorced irrational beliefs tend to middle. The worst situation was " proneness to blame" .

Majority students are poor in nutrition knowledge, diet structure is irrational and without reasonable die structure.

But to allow men to behave so to others, and to expect them not to do thee any wrong, is irrational and tyrannical.

The author tries to find out the irrational elements from sustaining system, internal space, elevation and surroundings.

Many of these thoughts are irrational and exaggerate the dangerousness of the situation.

Some analysts believe this reflects the "irrational exuberance" of Asia's relatively young private banking industry.

Human beings are a complex mixture of rational and irrational, a subtle combination of head, heart and guts.

They go out of their way to calm each other's irrational fears. Oh, come on, Tom. I really need you to do this.

The Europeans' appeasement policy towards irrational regimes would only aggravate the hidden dangers.

So on this analysis, we started this decade at historically irrational valuations.

First, the animation box office and derivatives income ratio is irrational, the derivatives market are foreign squeezed.

Well, you now also let person? Irrational. Taishan give up halfway, how come? Don't let your niece a luxury to take the cable car? Stupid!

Share prices slipped briefly after Alan Greenspan spoke of the dangers of "irrational exuberance" at the end of 1996.

As the main reason of soil and water loss, soil erosion is accelerated by irrational land-use.

Though having entered into junior middle school, Xiaowang still can't make a distinction between rational numbers and irrational numbers.

Blind investment and irrational, redundant construction are fairly common problems.

Being surrounded by hostile nations has made Iran paranoid resulting in irrational behavior. They ultimately will fall.

No matter when and how we start upsetting ourselves, we continue to feel upset because we cling to our irrational beliefs.

These people are not irrational; they are simply fulfilling needs and interests that you may not fully appreciate.

For many fans of the irrational moves, first by their love for Andy Lau. The second is the attitude of their own is not correct.

If they care at all about you, they will listen and support you, even if they don't completely understand your irrational fears.

And obstacle of governmental role's orientation comes from irrational thought and unlimited government power.