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Without self-justification, we might be left standing emotionally naked, unprotected, in a pool of regrets and losses.
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247 |
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…personality difference have nothing to do with it. Sweet, kind people are as likely as crabby ones to be victims or perpetrators and to justify themselves accordingly.
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258 |
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The pain of living with horrors we have committed but cannot morally accept is searing, which is why most people will reach for any justification available to assuage the dissonance.
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268 |
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Combine self-justifying perpetrators and victims who are helpless, and you have a recipe for the escalation of brutality.
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272 |
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Human beings may not be eager to change, but we have the ability to change, and the fact that many of our self-protective delusions and blind spots are built in to the way the brain works is no justification for not trying.
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289 |
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By looking at our actions critically and dispassionately… we stand a chance of breaking out of the cycle of action, followed by self-justification, followed by more committed action.
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300 |
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Most people who get caught in a lie, mistake, or hypocritical dance feel sharp dissonance and are motivated to squirm out of it with a flurry of self-justification.
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336 |
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Business management must always, in every decision and action, put economic performance first. It can justify its existence and its authority only by the economic results it produces.
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026 |
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Once you can assess the absolute values of products, it becomes easier to determine if the value gap between products justifies the observed price differences.
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070 |
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The real world isn’t a place, it’s an excuse. It’s a justification for not trying. It has nothing to do with you.
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