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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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Generalize Life Must Short
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
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
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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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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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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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
The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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