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Even when the topic is factual, absolute values are less likely to be exposed when people only search for facts that support their prior beliefs.
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167 |
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The fact that it is so much easier to remember the past than to generate the possible causes us to make plenty of weird decisions.
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140 |
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The fact is that negative events do affect us, but they generally don’t affect us as much or for as along as we expect them to.
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153 |
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…research suggests that when it comes to collecting and analyzing facts about ourselves and our experiences, most of us have the equivalent of an advanced degree in Really Bad Science.
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164 |
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When facts challenge our favored conclusion, we scrutinize them more carefully and subject them to more rigorous analysis.
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169 |
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When experiences make us feel sufficiently unhappy, the psychological immune system cooks facts and shifts blame in order to offer us a more positive view.
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180 |
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…the awareness of true reality is an experience, not an idea, that in fact requires a ‘radical refusal of thoughts’ in favor of a simple state of attending to the moment.
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210 |
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The practice of being with the way things are calls upon us to distinguish between our assumptions, our feelings, and the facts – that is, what has happened or what is happening.
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103 |
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It’s a well-documented fact that, decades after most women entered the workplace, we’re still doing the majority of the housework.
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116 |
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Our addiction to short-term validation is so engrained that trying to defy it is hopeless. Accept this fact.
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