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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

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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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.
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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses and beliefs of the individual.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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Cloe Discover Link Many Patricia Prejudice Studies
The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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