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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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Fact Generalization Given Large Make Rush Thimbleful Tub
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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Ashamed Eliminate People Prejudices Road Well
If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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Apparent Each Himself Idiom Person Species Syntax Violation
Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.
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Answer Indeed Intellectual Maturity Measure Philosopher Problem Suggest
Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Consider Mindedness Occur Open Speak Stricly Virtue
Life is too short so we must generalize.
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Generalize Life Must Short
A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen, is not good because his specific goals are acceptable, but because his successive goals are ordered to a dependable and socially desirable set of values. (1947)
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Accept Citizen Desirable Set Goal Good Neighbour Parent Socially Specific Successive
There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, “I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn’t like.”
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Country Despise Like never Once Remark Story Student
It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.
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Class Classic Comfort Ease Marry Normally People Plenty Prejudice
The dog [in Pavlov’s experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell.
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Accomplish Bell Continue Dog Edible Experiment Hear Least Offer Salivate Sometimes Unless
A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?
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Category Event Experience Fresh Handle New Occur Old Redacted Right
As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Help Life Manner Own Parisian Think Way
Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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Almost Always Bigot Extremely Patriot Super
The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth.
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