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The doctrinaire who uses right ideas to support or defend wrong actions is able to do so only because those ideas are general and abstract ones. They ignore circumstances, time, and place. Convert them into specific concrete, practical, and particular cases, and their misuse becomes difficult.

-- Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 1 : Uplift Character > # 332