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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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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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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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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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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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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