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

But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system.
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Accident Association Center Dynamic Human Life Long Permanent System
It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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Away Derive Experience Formed Loyalty Major Once Promlonge Take Unhappiness
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 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
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
Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Expose Knowledge New Only Prejudgement Prejudice Reversible
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
The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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Doubt Fashion Mature Ordinarily Religious Sentiment Workshop
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
The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.
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Become Discover Knowledge Look Needle Ourselves Outline Psychology Supplies Uniqueness
Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Become Expose Knowledge Prejudice President Reversible
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
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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Contradict Likely Nothing Noting Persuaded Science Step Stil Thesis True Whole Truth
If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is.
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Another Dying Life Must Suffer Purpose Tell
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
Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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Agent Create Focus Greatest Incomparably Love Profesional Psychiatry Psychotherapeutic Release Something

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