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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.

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

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
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
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
Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.
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Accept Answer Continue Each Find Grow Indignity Must Out Prescribe Responsibility Spite Succeed
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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Capable Erroneous Evidence Judgement Light Person Prejudice Rectify
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
We cannot know the young child’s personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed.
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Attention Impulsive Interest Liable Personality Reaction Study System Yet Young
[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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Country Equation Heroism Intellectual Nothing Out People Wrote Rarer Require Willingness Written
Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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Act Behind Does Individual Lie Personality Something Specific
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
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
Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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Best Comprise Form Give Love Receive Therapy
Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Character Condition Country Hate Live Most People Person
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

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