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

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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 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
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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Adapt Belief Impulse Real Realization Reason World
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
Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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Agent Create Focus Greatest Incomparably Love Profesional Psychiatry Psychotherapeutic Release Something
Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Expose Knowledge New Only Prejudgement Prejudice Reversible
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
Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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Almost Always Bigot Extremely Patriot Super
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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Doubt Fashion Mature Ordinarily Religious Sentiment Workshop
Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Become Expose Knowledge Prejudice President Reversible
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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Answer Indeed Intellectual Maturity Measure Philosopher Problem Suggest
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
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
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
Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Character Condition Country Hate Live Most People Person

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