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

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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
The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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Commitment Create Fewer More Nature never Question Scientist Very Way
Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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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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Country Equation Heroism Intellectual Nothing Out People Wrote Rarer Require Willingness Written
Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.
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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
And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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Amount Loyalty Make No Punishment Repudiate Sometimes
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
Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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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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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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
Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Character Condition Country Hate Live Most People Person
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 mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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Doubt Fashion Mature Ordinarily Religious Sentiment Workshop

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