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# Morton Irving Seiden

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##  Quotes by Morton Irving Seiden

> [What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morton-irving-seiden/what-astonishes-many-of-us-is-not-so-much-that-human-nature-is/)

[Morton Irving Seiden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morton-irving-seiden/)

[Behave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/behave/)

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> [It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morton-irving-seiden/it-is-only-too-easy-to-compel-a-sensitive-human-being-to-feel-guilty/)

[Morton Irving Seiden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morton-irving-seiden/)

[Easy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/easy/)

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> [Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morton-irving-seiden/every-attempt-to-explain-human-behavior-especially-the-irrational/)

[Morton Irving Seiden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morton-irving-seiden/)

[Behavior](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/behavior/)

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> [In these anxious times many of us are less astonished that reason is ever suspended than that it should ever prevail, even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morton-irving-seiden/in-these-anxious-times-many-of-us-are-less-astonished-that-reason-is/)

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[Anxious](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anxious/)

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