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An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.

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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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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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The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth.
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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume … that we really know the score…. [But] this is not an easy assignment.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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