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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.

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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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Apparent Each Himself Idiom Person Species Syntax Violation
Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.
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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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But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system.
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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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Cloe Discover Link Many Patricia Prejudice Studies
Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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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Assignment Assume Comfort Easy Know Much Ourselves Really Score Since Think Time
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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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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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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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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