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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't…
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. A good parent, a good neighbour,…
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual…
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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…
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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…
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Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can…
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."
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Prayers prayed in the Spirit never die until they accomplish God's intended purpose. His answer may not be what we expected, or…
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