[1] Obedience and respect for authority are the most important virtues children should learn.



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[2] A person who has bad manners, habits, and breeding can hardly expect to get along with decent people.



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[3] If people would talk less and work more, everybody would be better off.



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[4] The business man and the manufacturer are much more important to society than the artist and the professor.



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[5] Science has its place, but there are many important things that can never be understood by the human mind.



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[6] Every person should have complete faith in some supernatural power whose decisions he obeys without question.



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[7] Young people sometimes get rebellious ideas, but as they grow up they ought to get over them and settle down.



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[8] What this country needs most, more than laws and political programs, is a few courageous, tireless, devoted leaders in whom the people can put their faith.



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[9] No sane, normal, decent person could ever think of hurting a close friend or relative.



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[10] Nobody ever learned anything really important except through suffering.



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[11] What the youth needs most is strict discipline, rugged determination, and the will to work and fight for family and country.



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[12] An insult to our honor should always be punished.



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[13] Sex crimes, such as rape and attacks on children, deserve more than mere imprisonment; such criminals ought to be publicly whipped, or worse.



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[14] There is hardly anything lower than a person who does not feel a great love, gratitude, and respect for his parents.



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[15] Most of our social problems would be solved if we could somehow get rid of the immoral, crooked, and feebleminded people.



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[16] Homosexuals are hardly better than criminals and ought to be severely punished.



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[17] When a person has a problem or worry, it is best for him not to think about it, but to keep busy with more cheerful things.



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[18] Nowadays more and more people are prying into matters that should remain personal and private.



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[19] Some people are born with an urge to jump from high places.



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[20] People can be divided into two distinct classes: the weak and the strong.



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[21] Some day it will probably be shown that astrology can explain a lot of things.



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[22] Wars and social troubles may someday be ended by an earthquake or flood that will destroy the whole world.



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[23] No weakness or difficulty can hold us back if we have enough will power.



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[24] It is best to use some prewar authorities in Germany to keep order and prevent chaos.

[You'll have to pretend it is 1946 when you answer this one.



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[25] Most people don't realize how much our lives are controlled by plots hatched in secret places.



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[26] Human nature being what it is, there will always be war and conflict.



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[27] Familiarity breeds contempt.



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[28] Nowadays when so many different kinds of people move around and mix together so much, a person has to protect himself especially carefully against catching an infection or disease from them.



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[29] The wild sex life of the old Greeks and Romans was tame compared to some of the goings-on in this country, even in places where people might least expect it.



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[30] The true American way of life is disappearing so fast that force may be necessary to preserve it.