Bias (n.) distorts an observer's analysis at first, Freud admits, but like the early microscope's errors it matters less as technique matures.
Bias (n.) in favor of the state is invisible to anyone who has already taken all of the state's premises as given.
Bias (n.) is complete when the writer cannot see it: a reporter finds 'clear choices' among El Salvador's right-wing parties and 'murky plans' in a Nicaragua whose ballot ran from right to far left — within one article.
Bias (n.) is an adjective handed out unevenly: a human-rights group is 'controversial... too sympathetic to the left', while the State Department, the main source, never gets an adjective at all.
Desire (n.) is agreeable if one feels strong enough to reach its object — otherwise it becomes a state of distress, as with Schopenhauer.
Desire (n.) is where man's nook-intellectuality and poverty of spirit are most apparent, even today.
Desire (n.) magnifies what it desires and grows even by not being fulfilled; the greatest ideas were created by the most violent and protracted desires.
The Evil inclination (n.) is like the thread of a spider at first, and at the end like the thick ropes of a cart.
Partiality (n.) is generally supplemented by prejudice, and is most objectionable in family government.
Partiality (n.) to private connexions rightly outweighs universal views; otherwise our affections would be dissipated and lost for want of a limited object.
Partiality (n.) is the middle term of earthly love; of love to the neighbor, God — love God above all and you love your neighbor, and in your neighbor every man.
Partiality (n.) reaches its passionate limit in loving only one; self-denial reaches its limit in excluding not a single one.
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