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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.

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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
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
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 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
And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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Amount Loyalty Make No Punishment Repudiate Sometimes
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
[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
Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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Best Comprise Form Give Love Receive Therapy
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
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
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
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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Act Cause Discover Good Justify Rationalization Reason Reasoning
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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Apparent Each Himself Idiom Person Species Syntax Violation
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

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