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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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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There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, “I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn’t like.”
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A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen, is not good because his specific goals are acceptable, but because his successive goals are ordered to a dependable and socially desirable set of values. (1947)
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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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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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