But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system.
GORDON ALLPORTAnd sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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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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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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