We sometimes find ourselves changing our minds without any resistance or heavy emotion, but if we are told we are wrong we resent the Imputation and harden our hearts. 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... The little word my is the most important one in human affairs, and properly to reckon with it is the beginning of wisdom. It has the same force whether
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