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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 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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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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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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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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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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