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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’

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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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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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Goal Intention Long Our Ourselves Range Specific Subsidiary
Life is too short so we must generalize.
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Generalize Life Must Short
Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume … that we really know the score…. [But] this is not an easy assignment.
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Assignment Assume Comfort Easy Know Much Ourselves Really Score Since Think Time
An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.
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Accident Associate Battle Center Depend Experience Least Original Permanent Stock
Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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
And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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Amount Loyalty Make No Punishment Repudiate Sometimes
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
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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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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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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Doubt Fashion Mature Ordinarily Religious Sentiment Workshop
As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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
Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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