Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
GORDON ALLPORTPeople who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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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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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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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.
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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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 takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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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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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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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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