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• Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.
• Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions.
• Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
• Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze…
• Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be…
• We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone…
• Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.
• We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is…
• Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.
• We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
• Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of…
• Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.

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