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We cannot know the young child’s personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed.

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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?
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The dog [in Pavlov’s experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell.
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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses and beliefs of the individual.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.
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