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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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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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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If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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