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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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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
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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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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
A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen, is not good because his specific goals are acceptable, but because his successive goals are ordered to a dependable and socially desirable set of values. (1947)
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Accept Citizen Desirable Set Goal Good Neighbour Parent Socially Specific Successive
[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
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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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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
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
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
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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