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While plants and animals are essential to human existence, I have no personal bond with most of them.
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The main purpose of learning is to be able to get a good job.
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Meditation is at best a form of relaxation and at worst a dangerous escape from reality and our responsibilities.
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We should try to harmonize with nature rather than manipulate and control it.
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Suicide is just plain wrong.
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Money frees us from drudgery and meaningless work.
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I love to sit quietly just watching the clouds or a wild flower.
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Our deep inner realm is basically primitive and evil.
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I get very little pleasure from material possessions.
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A meaningful life depends more on learning to cooperate than learning to compete.
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Humankind is moving by some grand plan toward an historical goal.
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I do not believe in personal god.
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I enjoy eating by myself in the restaurant.
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Science is our main hope for the future.
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Money tends to enslave people.
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People should strive to return to nature.
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Heart and kidney transplants are natural and wonderful medical advances.
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Death does not really make much sense to me.
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I like to travel alone sometimes to new places.
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People should have the opportunity to work themselves out of the situation in life they are born into.
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My dreams seem like an alien part of me.
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It is primarily through thinking and classifying that our experiences take on meaning.
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I feel awkward and self-conscious with most strangers.
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Science is a destructive force in the long run.
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Language gives form and meaning to our experiences.
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I enjoy being by myself in the dark.
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A new idea should be treasured whether it is useful or not.
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The ideal society is one in which each person by working individually for his own goals benefits everyone.
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I feel that my dreams are integral part of me.
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Inaction makes me very nervous and uncomfortable.
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True learning is directed toward self-understanding.
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I believe in personal soul which will continue to exist after death.
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I can't stand eating by myself.
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I feel a real sense of kinship with most plants and animals.
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The best way to understand something is to subdivide it into smaller components and analyze each component carefully.
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We should only consume what we actually need.
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One of the most important things you can teach your children is how to compete successfully in the world.
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Thoughts tend to isolate us from our feelings.
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I can't honestly say that it bothers me very much to step on ant or bee deliberately.
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Complex problems cannot be understood by breaking them into smaller components and then analyzing each component.
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Suicide is sometimes noble and natural choice.
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A high level of consumption, even if it means some waste, is essential to a strong economy and a high standard of living.
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I find most strangers interesting and easy to get to know.
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It is within one's deep inner self that humankind will find true enlightenment.
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The world keeps passing through cycles, over and over again, never really changing.
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Suffering, while painful and unpleasant, is basically a positive experience.
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Humankind progress has resulted primarily from his ability, through science and technology, to control and modify the natural world.
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I feel ill at ease by myself in strange places.
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Administering questionnaires is not a very effective way to find out about people.
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I am usually afraid when I find myself alone in a dark place.
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Language tends to interfere with our ability to experience things naturally and fully.
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Anxiety usually results in personal growth.
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People should accept the role in life they are given by their parents' status in society.
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Only ideas that help us do something better have much value.
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The use of artificial kidneys and plastic hearts is going too far; it's unnatural.
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Science and technology have provided us with an illusion of progress; an illusion we will later pay for dearly.
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I believe in personal god to whom I must account after death.
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The ideal society is one in which each person subordinated his or her own desires and works consciously for the good of the community.
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Suffering should be avoided at all cost because it destroys the meaning of life.
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Probably some useful information about people can be acquired through questionnaire.
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Knowing that we shall die gives meaning to life.
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Material possessions are for me a deep source of satisfaction.
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If there is a soul, I believe that after I die it will lose its individuality and become one with the overall spirituality of the universe.
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Anxiety usually leads to unproductive and even self-destructive behavior.
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Meditation properly practiced can be a rich source of personal enlightenment, even when practiced by amateurs it may offer a way to relax.
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The only real progress we have achieved has been through science and technology.
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I hate to kill anything, even insects.
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We should strive to free ourselves from the uncompromising forces of nature.