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Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.
James Harvey Robinson / Historian
Being The Best
Excellence
Goal
Stated
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We continue to think of new things in old ways.
James Harvey Robinson / Historian
New Things
Thinking
Way
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To become historically-minded is to be grown-up.
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Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.
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Men
Found
Long
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Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions.
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Pain
Spiritual
Study
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There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.
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Interesting
Self
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Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.
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Life
Power
Unique
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Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
James Harvey Robinson / Historian
Wisdom
Argument
Believe
Intellectual
Reasoning
Believing
Consists
Finding
So-Called
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Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
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Curiosity
Idle
Indispensable
May
Realizing
Rare
Fail
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We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
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Believe
Silly
Stupid
Believe People Find
Thoughts
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I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.
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Everyday
Facts
Fool
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There are pastors who won't go to people's sick beds. How can people of God turn their back on the sick, poor and hungry?
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Hungry
Sick
Beds
Pastors
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Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.
James Harvey Robinson / Historian
Atheism
Errors
Self
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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.
James Harvey Robinson / Historian
Motivational
Addiction
Lying
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Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.
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Atheism
Curse
Partisanship
Political
Sides
Two Sides
Assume
Readily
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In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.
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History
Men
Done
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Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
James Harvey Robinson / Historian
Courage
Analysis
Bravery
Escaping
Greatness
Ideas
Old Ideas
Respectable
Standards
Largely
Ways
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We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but if someone tries to take them from us, we defend them with almost an illicit passion.
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Belief
Passion
Trying
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History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.
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History
Memories
Overcoming
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We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship.
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Companionship
Filled
Formation
Beliefs
Rob
Incredibly
Proposed
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Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.
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Success
Doe
Way
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Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.
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Men
Emotional
Real
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We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem, which is threatened.
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Ideas
Passion
Self Esteem
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We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any of our assumptions leads us to seek every manner of excuse for clinging to them. The result is that most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
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Believe
Doubt
Resentment
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