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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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
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
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
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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Ashamed Eliminate People Prejudices Road Well
Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Expose Knowledge New Only Prejudgement Prejudice Reversible
We cannot know the young child’s personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed.
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Attention Impulsive Interest Liable Personality Reaction Study System Yet Young
If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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Capable Erroneous Evidence Judgement Light Person Prejudice Rectify
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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Accident Association Center Dynamic Human Life Long Permanent System
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
Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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Almost Always Bigot Extremely Patriot Super
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
Life is too short so we must generalize.
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Generalize Life Must Short
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
[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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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
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

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