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   Unless you're a robot, you have feelings: You feel happy, sad, sorry, angry, excited, or anxious. Sometimes, you're ambivalent, which means that you experience different and perhaps conflicting feelings at the same time. For example, you may be pleased to be going to a ball game, but you also feel anxiuos about an unfinished project that you'll have to tackle when you get home; or you may be happy to be going on a trip, but at the same time you feel sorry to be leaving your family and friends or worried about how you'll cope with the demands of a new environment. Event at this moment, as you read this post, you are probably experiencing a variety of feelings: You might be curious or interested, or bored or confused; or perhaps you're irriated about having to read this or worried about finishing your assignment on time. You might also have feelings that have nothing to do with this task: For instance, you may be tired, hungry, or lonely.

   People can't stop feeling......

Richard Grossmans is the author of Choosing and Changing: A Guide to Self-Reliance.

1. When I was 18 years old and a boxing champion of the University of Pennsylvania, I was not above getting into an occasional brawl at the bar where my friends and I broke training with a night of beer drinking. When I was 43-and a veteran of four years in the Army during World War II-I adopted such a nonviolent, passive posture during a protest against the Vietnam War that it took four policemen to pick me up.

2. In both cases, the motivation for my behavior was, at least in part, anger-that common phenomennon that behavioral scientists describe as "an intense emotional reaction elicited by threat, interference, verbal attack, overt aggression of frustration, and characterized by acute reactions of the autonomic nervous system [which controls in voluntary muscles], and by overt or covert attack responses".

3. Without claiming that my carefully designed and rehearsed......

A. M. Rosenthal, Pulizer Prize winner and excutive editor of the New York Times, wrote this article after visiting the site of the Nazi concerntration camp in Auschwitz, Poland. The article appeared in the New York Times in 1958.

1. The most terrible thing of all, somehow, was that at Brzezinka the sun was bright and warm, the rows of graceful poplars were lovely to look upon, and on the grass near the gates children played.

2. It all seemed frightenningly wrong, as in a nightmare, that at Brzezinka the sun should ever shine or that there should be light and greenness and the sound of young laughter. It would be fitting if at Brzezinka the sun never shone and the grass withered, because this is a place of unutterable terror.

3. And yet, everyday, from all over the world, people come to  Brzezinka, quite possibly the most grisly tourist center on earth. They come for a variety of reasons-to see if it could really have been true, to remind themselves not to forget, to pay homage......

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Where do our ideas come from and what factors shape our interpretations of the world?

   Philosophers, psychologists, psychiatrists, linguitsts, sociologists, and other specialists spend their lives investigating this complex question. Certainly, the attitudes, beliefs, and customs we absorb from our families and our social and cultural enviroments, the languagues we speak, the emotions we feel-all of these affect the way we view the world. However, no matter where our ideas come from, and no matter what influences shape our ideas and views of the world, this much is clear: There is nothing, absolutely nothing, we can know unless it is first sifted through and interpreted by the human mind. Any knowledge of a world outside us, or, for that matter, any knowledge of our own bodies and selves, depends upon complex mental processes. We combine our ideas, we compare and contrast them, we analyze them; and through these and many other complex mental operations, new......

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