Carol Tavris Quotes
Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it even more tenaciously. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
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I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.
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Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
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Five wives can't all be wrong.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.
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I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.
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I'll get in the face of anyone I think is wrong.
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The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.
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Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong.
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I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'
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There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.
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I've experienced wrong diagnoses and been given antibiotics for things that could be cured naturally. We may not think much of it, but it destroys our immunity.
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I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.
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Dylan can do no wrong.
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Law of Attraction is not punishing you. Law of Attraction is supporting you with evidence of your vibrational frequency.
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If it has to be that wars and battles are begun for many reasons and quarrels, then they should also be avoided and shunned by better and more valid reasons.
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I think what Trump will be judged on by the folks that voted for him... is whether things start to get a little bit better over the next few years. And ultimately, that doesn't depend on whether Jeff Sessions is the attorney general.
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There's no doubt that the Donald Trump administration, part of the red meat that he ran on from the first day when he announced his candidacy was a very extreme anti-immigrant rhetoric that he kept up through the whole campaign - the wall, deportation, more detention. And I think that that particular piece of red meat, he's going to throw out every once in a while and try to - of all the commitments that he's made, this is the one that is most disturbing, because it's one that he will try to fulfill through his presidency.
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Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it even more tenaciously. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.
